RNC Treasurer Randy Pullen launders nearly 300k through AZGOP to influence City of Tucson elections

RNC Treasurer and AZ GOP Chairman Randy Pullen has done it again. Pullen’s official Arizona Republican Laundromat is open for business.

Pullen’s newest scheme to break campaign finance laws took place in the last few months of the 2009 City of Tucson elections. And it’s a nasty one.

Sonoran Weekly Review has discovered a new Exhibit A in the long list of formal and informal indictments against so-called “clean elections”.

“Clean elections” provide state or municipal funds (up to a pre-set maximum) to a participating candidate, who (allegedly) couldn’t raise money and get elected on his or her own. In contested races, participating candidates are given “matching funds” when a non-participating candidate spends money – the dreaded “trigger” funds. This type of campaign reform is supposed to equalize the playing field – keeping big money from having an undue influence over an election.

It hasn’t worked out that way in Arizona. Randy Pullen has seen to that.

Tucson’s 2009 campaign finance records show a $300,000 GOP money laundering trail that originates from longtime Tucson auto dealer Jim Click.

The money trail curls around Click’s bottomless bank accounts and makes stops at the Compass Bank – a bank he used to have a controlling interest in. He still sits on the Compass Bank board of directors. Compass Bank was the depository of choice for Jim Click’s favored City Council candidate and many of the official committees supporting Proposition 200.

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Is this a liberal MSM (redundant, I know) paper talking about illegal funding by a Republican?

Bwahahahahahaha.

Buy a mirror, progressive.

Better check with SCOTUS.
The campaign finance laws have changed, DRAMATICALLY this year!
Even if you are talking about State vs Federal law, the 1st Amendment is the 1st Amendment.

Now, if someone were to do this without the full authority of the organization represented -— that would be fraud or embezzelment.

Otherwise, it is now LEGAL!

I’m more interested in following the foreign credit card donations to the obama campaign and the activities of the obama phone bank in Gaza. I’m also interested in the money laundering schemes of George Soros and MoveOn.org. Got any info on those?

I don’t usually click through to people’s blogs, but I decided to make an exception, because it appeared there was some original work there.

But the story looks like it was written by a 3rd-grader. And not one of those really bright 3rd-graders either.

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