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RNC to File FEC Complaint on Obama Fundraising Practices
washingtonpost.com ^ | 10/05/08 | Matthew Mosk

Posted on 10/05/2008 11:29:06 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3

A lawyer for the Republican National Committee today said the party will ask the Federal Election Commission to look into the source of thousands of small-dollar contributions to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.

The RNC is alleging that the Obama campaign was so hungry for donations it "looked the other way" as contributions piled up from suspicious, and possibly even illegal foreign donors.

"We believe that the American people should know first and foremost if foreign money is pouring into a presidential election," said RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross.

Cairncross alleged there was mounting evidence of this, and cited an Oct. 4 report in Newsweek that documents a handful of instances where donors made repeated small donations using fake names, such as "Good Will" and "Doodad Pro."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaignfinance; corruptdems; donors; doodadpro; fec; fundraising; goodwill; obama; rnc
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To: Amityschild

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141 posted on 10/07/2008 7:35:21 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=451 SURVIVAL, RECIPES, GARDENS, & INFO)
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142 posted on 10/07/2008 8:06:36 PM PDT by Amityschild (Bringing Obama DOWN one day at a time - VRWC Member #777777777)
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To: TornadoAlley3
I hope their complaint includes this little tidbit:

I have received numerous emails from the Democrats asking me to contribute. I have visited their website and entered fictitious names and addresses without donating and without pledging any money. All those fictitious individuals at fictitious addresses have been listed in the Democrats' FEC filings with small dollar amounts!

Here is what I think is happening. Those individuals who donate money are placed into a file of real donors. Those who visit the website but do not donate are placed into another file. The campaign staff is apparently taking dirty money from some source with a ton of money to donate and applying small amounts, typically less than $500.00 against the fictitious names and the adding those names as donors in FEC filings.

If the FEC follows the money, the Democrats will likely be in real trouble with only those as dimwitted as Joe Biden surviving scrutiny.

143 posted on 10/14/2008 1:00:10 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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