RNC to File FEC Complaint on Obama Fundraising Practices

washingtonpost.com ^ | 10/05/08 | Matthew Mosk

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A lawyer for the Republican National Committee today said the party will ask the Federal Election Commission to look into the source of thousands of small-dollar contributions to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.

The RNC is alleging that the Obama campaign was so hungry for donations it "looked the other way" as contributions piled up from suspicious, and possibly even illegal foreign donors.

"We believe that the American people should know first and foremost if foreign money is pouring into a presidential election," said RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross.

Cairncross alleged there was mounting evidence of this, and cited an Oct. 4 report in Newsweek that documents a handful of instances where donors made repeated small donations using fake names, such as "Good Will" and "Doodad Pro."

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thanks for the ping.

[Amityschild]

Thanks for reminding me about this thread! Bumpity to the top!

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I hope their complaint includes this little tidbit:

I have received numerous emails from the Democrats asking me to contribute. I have visited their website and entered fictitious names and addresses without donating and without pledging any money. All those fictitious individuals at fictitious addresses have been listed in the Democrats' FEC filings with small dollar amounts!

Here is what I think is happening. Those individuals who donate money are placed into a file of real donors. Those who visit the website but do not donate are placed into another file. The campaign staff is apparently taking dirty money from some source with a ton of money to donate and applying small amounts, typically less than $500.00 against the fictitious names and the adding those names as donors in FEC filings.

If the FEC follows the money, the Democrats will likely be in real trouble with only those as dimwitted as Joe Biden surviving scrutiny.