Posted on 10/06/2008 1:13:44 AM PDT by markomalley
The Republican National Committee wants the Federal Election Commission to investigate the source of thousands of small contributions to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, a committee lawyer said yesterday.
The RNC's chief counsel, Sean Cairncross, said that there is mounting evidence that the Obama campaign was so hungry for donations it "looked the other way" as contributions piled up from suspicious donors, and possibly even from overseas, which would be illegal.
"We believe that the American people should know first and foremost if foreign money is pouring into a presidential election," Cairncross said.
He pointed to a report in the current issue of Newsweek magazine that documents a handful of instances in which donors made repeated small contributions using fake names, such as "Good Will" and "Doodad Pro." FEC auditors told the campaign that Good Will gave a total of more than $11,000 and Doodad Pro $17,130 -- far above the maximum allowable individual contribution of $2,300.
Newsweek also reported that earlier this year, two Palestinian brothers in the Gaza Strip paid $33,000 for a bulk order of T-shirts from the campaign's online store. (Those purchases count as contributions.) The brothers had listed their address as "Ga.," which the campaign took to mean Georgia rather than Gaza. The campaign later returned the money.
"While no organization is completely protected from Internet fraud, we will continue to review our fundraising procedures," Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told the magazine.
A federal fundraising rule lets campaigns accept donations of less than $200 without itemizing the names and addresses of the donors on its campaign finance reports.
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Yeah, good luck with that guys. The 2005-2008 Republican party is a prime example of implosion. Textbook.
I'm praying for a McCain win, but if it happens it sure won't be due to the "work" done by the Republican establishment. On top of their game? Not them!
And they like to "pooh pooh" the blogs, grassroots and talk radio as not sophisticated or refined!
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"Subject: WINNING CAMPAIGN When are you going to use common sense and start fighting?
Start here:
1) Is Obama a United States citizen? Pretty simple question huh?
2) Where did the $200,000,000 of illegal offshore contributions come from? Why is this not in the main stream media? Aren't there LAWS addressing this?
3) Associations with known terrorists, backing and support with heads of known terrorist countries an organizations. Some of us know this. Why not the voters?
4) Stop relying on Palin. Is she running for POTUS?
5) Listen to Limbaugh, you might get a clue of what Conservatives think should be done to *win* an election.
6) Get tough.
Respectfully submitted,
Mark Davis
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I look forward to hearing Mark today, a a fill-in for Rush.
Name and contact information.
Freepmail is fine )probably better in fact).
AiT
Rush's Mark Davis fill in substitute is a jerk. Jason Lewis is Rush's best substitute.
I did not realize it was your name. It is a good list.
its disgraceful how pitiful Bush has been in many areas, and disgraceful how pitiful the Pubs have looked in general.....
people got mad at the Pubs two years ago and let a rat infestation occur in the house and senate, and now this year, we've got people mad again because the outnumbered pubs couldn't control Congress, put fannie and freddie on a diet, or pass any meaningful energy policy.
we better get in focus here....no matter how silly, how meek, how mild, how boring the Pubs are, they are the greatest group on history compared to what is the alternative.....Pelosi, Barney, Dodd, and hussien....
NOBAMA....ever!
I listened to Jason Lewis for three years when he was down here in NC. He’s an economist with a pretty strong legal background so I can relate to his commentary.
who broke the story awhile ago. Now they're catching up.
Yep.
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