Posted on 10/14/2008 2:57:56 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat's campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.
An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. -- a subsidiary of ACORN -- worked in "get-out-the-vote" projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary.
FEC spokeswoman Mary Brandenberger said it is not unusual for campaigns to amend reports, even regarding large sums of money.
But, said Blair Latoff, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee: "Barack Obama's failure to accurately report his campaign's financial records is an incredibly suspicious situation that appears to be an attempt to hide his campaign's interaction with a left-wing organization previously convicted of voter fraud. For a candidate who claims to be practicing 'new' politics, his FEC reports look an awful lot like the 'old-style' Chicago politics of yesterday."
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Change the truth to meet the laws.....or is it the other way around? Just imagine what is yet to come if he gets elected....
Probably the original $800K but about the campaign trying to amend its original fraudulent report to the FEC.
gnip...
...verdict first ..then the trial...
From Aug.22,2008. ACORN is now heating up,and I don’t remember this having any traction.
Yeah, I'd say they need to amend something!
FOX !!! Please Report!
BTT!
Is this just another way of saying “I mis-spoke”?
LOL That is sooooo apropo. I’m swipin’ it. OK?
In addition gaffes, misspeaks and just plain stupid comments corrode his credibility and give rise to just what his real agenda is going to be.
There can be little doubt that he will throw Israel under the bus with the same flourish shown when his maternal grandmother was used, then abused.
I fear he will leave the country in far worse shape, financially and militarily, than he finds it now. That is, IF WE SURVIVE.
I AM NOT OPTIMISTIC!
In addition gaffes, misspeaks and just plain stupid comments corrode his credibility and give rise to just what his real agenda is going to be.
There can be little doubt that he will throw Israel under the bus with the same flourish shown when his maternal grandmother was used, then abused.
I fear he will leave the country in far worse shape, financially and militarily, than he finds it now. That is, IF WE SURVIVE.
I AM NOT OPTIMISTIC!
Sorry...twitchy finger!
You both owe me a new keyboard.
Yes but it’s only $800,000 not the Millions he has pumped thru off shore accounts and liasons with groups like Move-On.com. He needs to be disqualified. Period. America wake up.
someone needs to make a 30 second rotation of his ‘misspeaks’, ‘misvotes’ and, ‘misreportings’. This is absurd, and NO ONE in the media is reporting on any of it.
“the Democrat’s campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.”
I smell a rat. A big one.
“the Democrat’s campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.”
Democrats don’t make mistakes on this stuff, they commit crimes and then try to cover it up when they’ve been called on it.
Obama needs to be disqualified from the race.
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