Moneymen missing ....(Dem rips weak $upport)

NY Daily News ^ | August 27, 2006

[Nathan Zachary]

Isn't that an admission of guilt? I thought it was illegal to use 527's for direct support.

[no dems]

In 2004, Soros and other wealthy Democrats poured more than $200 million into so-called 527s, which supplemented the campaign of John Kerry.

$200 million down the drain. I'm lovin' it. Maybe they wised up and realized that they can't buy elections like the Dems did in the '50s and '60s.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Frankly, I don't believe this story for a half minute.

Me either.

[leftcoaster]

Congressman Rahm Emanuel, who leads the Democrats' efforts to retake the House and Senate, is criticizing two of his party's leading allies - George Soros and MoveOn.org - for spending too little on the midterm elections. "In the 2004 election there were some very active players who, as far as I can tell, have now decided they're neither going to be involved in the field, advertising or anything," Emanuel told the Daily News. "Do you know where they are?"

In 2004, Soros and other wealthy Democrats poured more than $200 million into so-called 527s, which supplemented the campaign of John Kerry. Political campaigns are legally barred from coordinating strategy with the independent groups, but they vastly strengthened the Democrats' field organizing.

Is Emanuel violating the election laws by these comments? Aren't his public comments "coordinating" with these 527's and telling them how to spend their campaign money?

[Enchante]

Gee, and I thought political parties and 527s were barred by law from coordinating...... sounds an awful lot like Rep. Rahm Emmanuel trying to do some coordinating with his favorite 527s. Anyone know how to get this in front of the IRS???

P.s. Campaign finance "reform" is a total sham - the 'Rats can do anything they want with Soros and friends.....

[IrishMike]

little ballet dancer, Soros is EVIL....good Democrats all!!
.
And don't forget the complete package with the 'traitors' and the race baiter's.

[webstersII]

"[Soros] says his No. 1 priority is taking back the House."

Boy, it's a good thing McCain-Feingold was passed, else we would have wealthy individuals trying to buy election outcomes in this country. </sarcasm>

[Fee]

War is won with dicipline. You have Emanuel who goes off like a madman and Soros who is strange. Dean is no better. GOP under MSM assault, Iraq is not so smooth and gasoline prices are too high, Dems should win, but they have nuts in command. When the GOP holds on to both houses in 2006, Dems should learn that there is a God in heaven.

[bert]

I saw this on Fox yesterday and took it to be a preemptive CYA whine.

The clintonoid is whining because as House reelection chair he sees he is filing and is already blaming others. He will not go down as a failure when he can blame others in August.

[IrishMike]

Isn't that an admission of guilt? I thought it was illegal to use 527's for direct support.



From the article, there is a paragraph that addresses the concerns of those, like yourself, who care to abide by the law.
..."Though Emanuel is barred from plotting strategy with the independent groups, he apparently feels free to hector them through the press"......

[Billthedrill]

The real bucks are being held for Hillary's campaign in 2008. Been that way since the Gore campaign. Two years of Congressional control under a Republican president isn't what the movers and shakers are after. They don't give a rip about impeachment and they aren't after a new policy in Iraq. They do want the White House.

[mwl1]

Notice again in life that liberals are generous with other people's money, not their own.

[GoBucks2002]

And here I thought it was illegal to coordinate between 527s and political parties or candidates?

Maybe that only applied to Republicans.

Thank you, Johnny Mac!

[Mygirlsmom]

Soros is not a bottomless pit after all....!

Only in the area where is soul should be.

[ConservativeDude]

The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead"

YEATS!

[IrishMike]

Is Emanuel violating the election laws by these comments? Aren't his public comments "coordinating" with these 527's and telling them how to spend their campaign money?
.
.
.
.
ABSOLUTELY !!!!!!!
See post 30, and some advise on the law, though I have no legal schooling.
The MSM and the Drats believe laws are for Republicans.

[91B]

The middle class should be exempt from capital-gains tax. And families with an income of less than $100,000 a year should surrender no more than 10% of it to the taxman...he wants 100,000 more soldiers for America's overstretched army.

I have absolutely no problem with those ideas, but I don't trust the Dhimmicranks to implement them.

[Jack Deth]

Congressman Rahm Emanuel, who leads the Democrats' efforts to retake the House and Senate, is criticizing two of his party's leading allies - George Soros and MoveOn.org - for spending too little on the midterm elections.


Considering Move-On and the radical MoonBats' Batting Average over the last few years, equalling consistent abyssmal failures. Maybe, the Dem's delusional Daddy Warbucks and his Socialist Trust Fund ilk are finally tired of throwing $$$ down dry holes!


Jack.

[bigcat32]

"I'm betting on GOP gains in both houses."


Please explain.

[ClearCase_guy]

That didn't take long! You responded to my second use of that tagline.

Freepers know everything.