Posted on 07/28/2009 7:02:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
President Obama refunds cash to Kenyan aunt, convicted murderer, lobbyists By: Kenneth P. Vogel July 28, 2009 04:44 AM EST
More than eight months after President Barack Obama won the White House, the remnants of his campaign organization is struggling to deal with some unfinished business: returning about $669,000 in tainted or illegal campaign contributions to a motley assortment of donors, among them a convicted murderer, Washington lobbyists and a number of foreign nationals, including his own aunt.
But the 11 Chicago-based staff members still on the campaign’s payroll are finding it was a lot easier to rake in a record-shattering $750 million than to identify and return donations that ran afoul of federal election laws or Obama’s own strict fundraising standards.
Their intensive effort to refund problem contributions has involved detailed research into lobbying records and passport information, an elaborate accounting system that cancels and reissues stale-dated refund checks and phone calls and letters urging donors to cash their refunds. The effort is unprecedented in modern politics, according to election law compliance experts, and underscores both the logistical challenges of processing so much contribution data and the Obama team’s hypersensitivity to anything that could sully the president’s carefully honed image as a crusader against special interests and a champion of ethics and transparency.
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...his campaign organization is struggling to deal with some unfinished business: returning about $669,000 in tainted or illegal campaign contributions to a motley assortment of donors, among them a convicted murderer, Washington lobbyists and a number of foreign nationals, including his own aunt.$669K out of $750 million. Yeah right.
All illegal contributions should be seized. Otherwise they amount to a non-interest bearing loan.
In my opinion, they knew Oboma would finish the job his muslim brothers failed to do on 9/11. They'd pay millions to have Oboma to take us out.
They're getting exactly what they paid for, too, and in record time. Bin Ladin couldn't have done better. He is truly the radical Muslims Messiah.
Obomas "well funded" civilian police force.
Oboma must idolize Aldolpf. He's probably got a poster of him on the wall in his bedroom.
Why wouldn't Americas enemies support Oboma? What more could they ask for? They're brothers in arms.
He probably thought "change" was a good word. I'm sure he didn't understand what that meant. Heck, millions of Americans thought it meant something good and donated.
Oboma has taught millions of American voters a valuable lesson. Never vote blindly, or another Oboma could once again rise to power.
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