Democrats Are Fined $243,000 for Fund-Raising Violations (People's Republic of China and Clinton)

nytimes ^ | 9/21/2002 | RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

[Aracelis]

If they keep fining Slick, maybe we can retire the national debt. Just a thought...

[TLBSHOW]

I was hoping they would arrest him for treason!

[Hoosier-Daddy]

They fined the Buddhists, but not AL Gore. What the hell is that. Al Gore should be paying the fine. He set the whole thing up after all.

[Aracelis]

Patience...all good things in their appropriate time. :-)

[operation clinton cleanup]

Ahhh, excuse me... I have to urinate. To much ice tea.

[struwwelpeter]

Let me get this straight: take a million or so in illegal money, pay $243k back in fines.

SIGN ME UP!!!

[wai-ming]

They fined the Buddhists, but not AL Gore. What the hell is that. Al Gore should be paying the fine.

Classic Clinton/Gore: Take advantage of others, stiff them and make them pay, then walk away scot-free.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Let me get this straight: take a million or so in illegal money, pay $243k back in fines.

Thank God for campaign finance reform, otherwise this stuff might be against the law.... oh wait, it was!

[CyberAnt]

Nah ... Al wasn't smart enough to do that - he just showed up for the event. Although, I do believe he did know what the event was all about - but I'm convinced he didn't plan it.

[TLBSHOW]

The documents also state that the election commission's general counsel found in 1999 that there was "reason to believe" that the People's Republic of China "knowingly and willfully" violated federal election law. But the heavily redacted documents also state that the commission voted unanimously to "take no action at this time" on the general counsel's recommendation.

From above story!

NO ACTION AT THIS TIME OR ANYTIME?

[CyberAnt]

This is such good news. Maybe not the stiff fines I had hoped for, but good nevertheless. Hopefully, the dems will get the message that this admin will not allow them to get away with this stuff.

[highpockets]

Sure glad this came out on Friday, would have mad good dicsussion on the talk shows early in the week

But it will be old news by then.

Darn it. This negative stuff about the Clinton/Gore/Dems can just never happen on a Monday.

[operation clinton cleanup]

NO ACTION AT THIS TIME OR ANYTIME?

Spineless bass-terds.

[operation clinton cleanup]

But it will be old news by then.

Don't you remeber? It was old news THEN!

[johnboy]

this from a lawyer:

why the f**k wasn't the fine/penalty/restitution at least twice the swag they originally took in?

[Zon]

They fined the Buddhists, but not AL Gore. What the hell is that. Al Gore should be paying the fine. He set the whole thing up after all.

Gore was was in one of three states of mind -- probably the third.

1. Ignorant of the illegality of the contributions.
2. Incompetent for not researching the legality of the contributions.
3. Set the whole thing up knowing the contributions were illegal.

Gore's incredibly lame "no controlling legal authority" response points to number 3.

[Political Junkie Too]

Thank God for campaign finance reform, otherwise this stuff might be against the law.... oh wait, it was!

No, you have it all wrong!

With CFR, it's only against the law to TALK ABOUT IT 60 days before an election.

-PJ

[operation clinton cleanup]

You mean there is a money for nuclear secrets loophole?

[Humidston]

Well, I see we have our latest Friday news dump.

Only problem I see is the Dems' fines are way too light.

AND WE SAID THEY WERE CROOKED. NOW NOBODY CAN TELL US IT WAS OUR IMAGINATION OR BLIND BIGOTRY! (This part I love!)