Posted on 07/08/2008 8:13:18 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
Make a donation of $5 or more between now and midnight on July 31st, and you could be one of 10 supporters chosen to meet Barack backstage and watch his acceptance speech in person.
Each of the 10 selected supporters can bring a guest, and will be flown to Denver to spend two days at the convention, culminating in Barack's speech on Thursday, August 28th.
(Excerpt) Read more at donate.barackobama.com ...
Churches are among those institutions that operate within the law. Exceptions have been made for certain lobbied groups.
Newspapers can also include promotional “bingo” cards.
And those who operate legal bingo and lotteries are among those who file complaints against the non-compliant competition.
Obama held several fundraisers in China.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/06/10/obama_campaign_plans_fundraise.html
Obama appears to have collected the most funds from overseas, at least $1.6 million, according to Federal Election Commission records. (McCain raised $196,000 from donors living abroad, the records show. While McCain’s contributions are centered largely in London, with a handful from Bermuda, the Obama funds have come from addresses as eclectic as Kabul, Dubai, Palermo, and Sydney.
Frankly, I think if you send $5 to a campaign, you pretty much cost them money. They will put you on a mailing list, and send you stuff every month, they have to track your name, report it to the government. If you pay by check, they have to process the check, if by credit card they have to pay the card company.
It might be worth it to have a publicly proclaimed REPUBLICAN movement to give $5 to Obama, so we can have republicans sitting with him before his speech.
That way, when he announces how many more people are giving to his campaign, we can say it was because republicans were messing with him.
441k. Prohibition on contributions by minors “An individual who is 17 years old or younger shall not make a contribution to a candidate or contribution or donation to a committee of a political party.”
Section 318 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) , Pub. L. No. 107-55, ammended the Act to add section 441k. This amendment was effective as of November 6, 2002. However, in McConnell vs. FEC, 540 U.S. 93 (2003), The Supreme Court ruled that ammendment 441k was unconstitutional
Of what purpose does it serve to have a 16 year old win a trip to a Democratic Convention, that seems wrong on so many levels... First of all they can not vote, second of all, is that encouraging minors to be transported across state lines, and who will be their gaurdian and Mainly they are not of legal age to gamble anywhere.
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