Obama's questionable fundraising

JDeuce · Oct 6, 2008

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93KHBH80&show_article=1

Now we know why Obama has all this money to run ads that avoid the real issues. He is getting bankrolled by the Iranians, North Koreans and Palestinians and Chinese. Maybe the Russians, too. And for those about to cry "October surprise"...this ain't it.

This is simply a deliberate criminal act on the part of the campaign. While we can all hope that people will go to jail over this, we all know better.

BetIt · Oct 6, 2008

FEC Queries McCain Campaign on 'Excessive Contributions'

By Matthew Mosk

While the Republican Party is pushing the Federal Election Commission to investigate the possibility that Democrat Barack Obama collected excessive contributions, its own candidate is facing scrutiny on the same subject.

The FEC sent a letter to Sen. John McCain's campaign treasurer Sept. 30 demanding the candidate turn over more information about "contributions that appear to exceed the limits."

The letter is accompanied by a nine-page list showing scores of overages from McCain's August campaign finance report, including nearly $13,000 from Texas rancher Ray R. Barrett Jr.; $9,200 from an Iraqi security consultant, H. Carter Andress; and $5,000 from Joseph F. Davolio, an executive at a major national liquor, beer, and wine distributor.

"Please inform the Commission of your corrective action immediately in writing and provide photocopies of any refund checks and/or letters reattributing or redesignating the contributions in question," the letter from the FEC's senior campaign finance analyst, Leah S. Palmer, says. "The acceptance of excessive contributions is a serious problem."

The FEC sent its letter a week before a lawyer for the Republican National Committee said the party will ask the Federal Election Commission to look into the source of thousands of small-dollar contributions to 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. RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross alleged there was mounting evidence of this, and cited a report in the current issue of Newsweek magazine that documents a handful of instances where donors made repeated small donations using fake names, such as "Good Will" and "Doodad Pro."

tocco05 · Oct 6, 2008

JDeuce said:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93KHBH80&show_article=1

Now we know why Obama has all this money to run ads that avoid the real issues. He is getting bankrolled by the Iranians, North Koreans and Palestinians and Chinese. Maybe the Russians, too. And for those about to cry "October surprise"...this ain't it.

This is simply a deliberate criminal act on the part of the campaign. While we can all hope that people will go to jail over this, we all know better.

Change you can believe in.:grandmais

BetIt · Oct 6, 2008

Burton also reminded voters that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) "has had to return over $1.2 million to donors who potentially violated the law with their contributions."

McCain returned about $50,000 worth of campaign contributions two months ago amid questions about how two oil company owners, one of whom is not a U.S. citizen, raised the money.

barman · Oct 6, 2008

JDeuce said:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93KHBH80&show_article=1

Now we know why Obama has all this money to run ads that avoid the real issues. He is getting bankrolled by the Iranians, North Koreans and Palestinians and Chinese. Maybe the Russians, too.