Marxist
Posted on 10/27/2008 11:22:43 AM PDT by BGHater
Thousands of political donations from outside the United States have helped fuel the White House bids of Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, but both campaigns have lagged in disclosing the sources for much of their overseas campaign cash.
Mr. McCain took more than a half-million dollars from donors listing residences outside the U.S. and its territories, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. But his campaign failed to provide disclosures for about a third of those supporters, such as where they work, what they do for a living and in what city they live.
While Mr. Obama's campaign reported such information for all but about 11 percent of the $4.6 million he reported from outside the U.S., numerous donations include incomplete or clearly questionable data.
For example, the Obama campaign reported accepting 37 donations during late August, each for $10, from a donor identified as "JFGGJJFGJ, JGTJ." The same donor listed a residence in "GJTJTJTJTJTJR." Another donor listed "white collar drone" as an occupation. At least 100 Obama donations came from "anonymous."
The lack of disclosure and erroneous donations concern campaign-finance watchdog groups. They say the vetting operations for both the campaigns appear overmatched by the hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through their coffers.
"Both of these campaigns seem overwhelmed by the amount of money they've had to process, and that's reflected anecdotally in the bogus names, excessive contributions and incomplete disclosure on both sides," said Massie Ritsch, spokesman for the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. "While it doesn't represent a lot of money, it does undercut the public's trust in the system."
Under FEC rules, presidential campaigns can accept money from overseas from a U.S. citizen, but they're barred by federal law from taking donations from foreign nationals.
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So it seems that $150,000 is the same as $4,600,000...
Wonder if this works with Bosses and Pay checks.
Only a complete noran can be nonpartisan, to my way of thinking. Either that or a totally self-involved individual, and I suspect that there may be a few of those around. But working for the Center For Responsible Politics? Give me a break!
and $400 million in donations is the same as $80 million.
if McCain had $400 million raised in one month, you’d never hear the end of MSM talking about his ‘fatcat’ donors.
This article missing the bigger point.
The big game is not donations over $200 with funny names.
The big game Obama’s not reporting donations under $200. Foreigners could be making numerous donations on foreign issued Visa cards—and I don’t mean expatriates living overseas.
These could be traced by card numbers, but I doubt the Feds are interested in enforcing the law. It’s all about padding nests now at the end of the decrepit Bush II administration.
These have obvious "flags," but how much of Obama's money is from phony sources like >> David Brown, 435 Second Avenue, Denver, CO 80810"? Would YOU be able to spot that one as a phony???
Obama's Operation WORMHOLE needs to be looked into, I fear there is a lot more illegal and over-limits money than anyone knows anything about, including Obama's own people, which is the beauty of the deception. ------Complete deniability.
But tracing with the number alone, without correct name or address, may be very difficult, and I'm not even sure the campaign even has the full 16-digits. Don't they just get the "final four?"
Get the info from Visa.
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