BUSH-CHENEY 2000 TO PAY $90,000 CIVIL PENALTY
Now, this is not a justification for DF's actions. Sounds like they deserved to be fined, and admitted as much. $6,500.00 bucks sounds about right.
But, it's harder to find a campaign or organization that HASN'T been fined for not meeting some compliance issue or another than it is to find one that has.
Google stuff like "Newt" "fines", etc. Insert the politician of your choice...you'll find a smorgasbord...
The Aug. 18 "agreement and order," signed by Declaration Foundation Executive Director Mary Parker Lewis, a top Minuteman adviser, acknowledged that the charity made false statements in seeking to solicit donations, failed to properly administer money it had collected, and withheld documents sought as part of an "investigative subpoena."
Mind explaining the boldface? Doesn't look like Bush-Cheney 2000 did anything like those two items.
'Scuse me... that would be "the everybody does it" defense... and that doesn't work when you hold yourself out as purer than pure and the victim of a conspiracy perpetrated by your enemies... no, this lays it right back at your feet. Don't try to change the subject.
This isn't about anybody else, Newt, Bush, Cheney or the Man in the Moon. This is about MCDC and DF.