The Obama campaign has some splainin’ to do. Only problem is will the proper authorities investigate these questionable donations from overseas?
(There is) a hijacking of our political system that makes the Clinton and Gore fundraising scandals pale in comparison. And no one here wants to touch it.”
From the Prowler at American Spectator.
An auditor for the Federal Election Commission is attempting to have his bosses seek a formal investigation into the collection by the Obama for President campaign of more than $200 million in potentially illegal political donations, including millions of dollars of illegal, foreign donations, and has sought a request for assistance from the Department of Justice or Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the analyst’s requests have largely been ignored. “I can’t get anyone to move. I believe we are looking at a hijacking of our political system that makes the Clinton and Gore fundraising scandals pale in comparison. And no one here wants to touch it.”
One reasons cited by his superiors, says the analyst, is that involvement by the Justice Department or FBI would be indicative of a criminal investigation, something the FEC would prefer not take place a month before the presidential election. Such actions, though, have been used to scuttle Republican campaigns in the past, the most famous being the Weinberger case in the days leading up to the 1992 re-election bid of President George H.W. Bush.
The analyst, who declines to be identified for fear of retribution, says that on four different occasions in the past three months, he sought to open formal investigations into the Obama campaign’s fundraising techniques, but those investigations have been discouraged. “Without formal approval, I can’t get the resources I need, manpower, that kind of thing. This is a huge undertaking.” And the analyst says that he believes that campaign finance violations have occurred.
The Obama campaign has already had to deal with several FEC complaints about fraudulent donors and illegal foreign contributions, and the FEC says it has no record that those complaints have been resolved or closed. As well, the Obama campaign has been cagey at times about the means by which it has made its historic fundraising hauls, which now total almost $500 million for the election cycle. The Hillary Clinton campaign raised questions about the huge amount of e-retail sales the Obama campaign was making for such things as t-shirts and other campaign paraphernalia, and how such sales were being tracked and used for fundraising purposes. While the profits of those items counted against the $2,300 personal donation limit, there have always been lingering questions about the e-retail system.
“The question has always been, if you buy a $25 t-shirt and you go back to that purchaser eight or nine times with email appeals for $200 or $500 donations, and you have people donating like that all the time, at what point does the campaign bother to check if the FEC limit has been exceeded?” says a former Clinton campaign fundraiser. “There are enough of us from the 1992 and 1996 and 2000 races around to know that many of these kinds of violations never get caught until after the election has been won or lost. In this case, there is no way the Obama campaign will be held accountable before Election Day, unless someone raises holy hell.”
The FEC analyst says that Obama’s filings indicate he has received large, bundled sums of donations from overseas, sometimes exceeding a quarter millions dollars. “It’s suspicious, but it’s the small donations made by credit card that need to be examined. We’ve raised red flags on many of these and the Obama campaign just ignores us. After this election, after we’ve sifted through everything — if we’re allowed to sift through everything — I am confident that we are looking at perhaps the largest fine every leveled against a national campaign entity.”
Just as frustrating as the lack of desire on the part of his bosses to act, says the analyst, is that major media outlets have ignored the story he has been attempting to tell. Thus far, Newsmax is one of the few publications to cover the Obama campaign finance scam story.
Tags: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Culture Of Corruption, Democrat Hypocrisy, Democrat Party, Liberal Bias, Liberal Hypocrisy, Low Wattage Of The Liberal Mindset, MSM, Muslims, National Politics, U.S. Senate
Stumble It!
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:01 am
$200,000,000???? Thats alot of T-Shirts. What exactly does a Presidential Campaign do with left over money? They don’t have to give it back? see below from FactCheck.org
Q: What happens to a candidate’s leftover campaign funds when he or she drops out of the race?
Do candidates for elected office keep donations to their campaigns for personal use after they lose or drop out? Or do those donations have to go into a greater party fund?
A: The big rule is: no personal use.
As Bob Biersack from the Federal Election Commission points out, most candidates don’t have much left over to begin with. Campaigning is expensive, and “leftover” money gets used for bills and debts first, including expenses incurred while winding down an abandoned campaign or a lost political office.
Candidates do sometimes end up with surplus funds, though, particularly if they’re incumbent members of Congress who decide not to run for another term. State and local governments have their own rules, but those running for federal office — including presidential candidates — must abide by strict FEC guidelines when it comes to their extra campaign money. They can donate an unlimited amount to a charity or political party. They can also, within limits, make contributions directly to other candidates. A campaign committee can give up to $2000 per election to each candidate. If the committee is converted into a political action committee, the limit jumps to $5000 – but to be established as a PAC, the committee would have to be in existence for six months, receive contributions from 50 donors, and make contributions to five recipients.
What candidates can’t do with leftover money is use it for personal expenses. Retiring federal lawmakers used to be able to pocket extra cash and use it for cars, vacations, clothes, pet grooming, whatever — but that changed in 1989 with the passage of the Ethics Reform Act.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 am
I think Katie is Good Will….keep donating Katie:
A Newsmax analysis of the 1.4 million individual contributions in the latest master file for the Obama campaign discovered 1,000 separate entries for Mr. Good Will, most of them for $25.
In total, Mr. Good Will gave $17,375.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:14 am
Well, we have $200 MILLION in potential illegal dontations.
Now we have voting irregularities in Ohio; Lou Dobbs appears to be the only one reporting it on TV…just one more reason not too watch TV, of course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iNkh2Gdt0A
Register and vote on the same day???? Great call DIMs.
And now, GOP observers are being kicked out of polling locations per the DIM SOS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weyrE9jLGn0
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:19 am
[...] the Obama Campaign is finding their way around the law.The American Spectator reports: H/T Stuck on Stupid An auditor for the Federal Election Commission is attempting to have his bosses seek a formal [...]
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:07 am
When we know what “his name is” and he is no longer in fear of “retribution”…then I will believe this particular story. Have there been, however, other more detailed reports of Obama’s acceptance of illegal campaign funds and have they never been reported on by the MSM? ANSWER: Yes. Investigation shumesigation! Give us a break!! McCAIN ‘08
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:13 am
“The question has always been, if you buy a $25 t-shirt and you go back to that purchaser eight or nine times with email appeals for $200 or $500 donations, and you have people donating like that all the time, at what point does the campaign bother to check if the FEC limit has been exceeded?”
OK you busted us….all us Dems we are all buying 900 Obama T-shirts! Rezko and George Soros gave us the money. Yeah, that’s it!
I love seeing what the big important Stuck On Stupid News Du Jour is. Gets more stuck every day!
Hey GOV PALIN! PLEASE PLEASE USE THIS BOMBSHELL IN YOUR DEBATE TONIGHT! Oh and the thing about Obama being a Kenyan citizen and Gwen Ifell being IN THE TANK BABY! Then drive it home with what a big ass Obama was to ever say “you’re right, Senator McCain!”
“Sarah Palin’s Greatest Hits” will be a feature-length video after tonight!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:17 am
Hey Katie, are you a minority, GED or drop-out?
You may just be a target of the Democrat “Educate the Idiots” campaign:
http://www2.facethestate.com/downloads/coda-web/strategygroup.pdf
Your party is demeaning, sexist, ageist bigots.
While I feed needy people every weekend, youre more worried about giving them a car ride so that they can vote for Obama…our pathetic people.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:22 am
While I advocate for abused kids, your wonderful Democrat party gives tickets and haircuts to the homeless so that they dont clutter up the streets during your convention. You and your party are garbage.
While I help pregnant mothers take care of their unborn baby, you just take my tax money and help her kill it.
Keep getting out the vote, I’ll actually keep helping those who need help.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
UCMJ Code of Conduct II (quote)
a. I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender the members of my command while they still have the means to resist.
(..)
c. Only when evasion by an individual is impossible and further fighting would lead only to death with no significant loss to the enemy should one consider surrender. ..]
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McCain-Palin_08! It is hopeless, “further fighting” brings no gains.
It is time for McCain to surrender (concede) for the good of the nation.
The Bush economy has collapsed four weeks before the elections and has left you flapping in the wind.
His buddies on Wall Street and in Banking have their Golden Parachutes and are jumping just as the nation crashes and burns into Economic Recession.
His friends in the Oil industry most thankful for the record revenue these past 8 years and for the gusher of new oil from Iraq.
1) Alcoa Inc. and Deere & Co. tumbled more than 5 percent as three-month bank lending rates climbed to the highest since January, while the government said factory orders slumped more than forecast.
2) Jobless claims and Unemployment are up today
3) the Credit Freeze has paralyzed the global economy
4) Obama is rising on InTrade at 66.8 -
McCain in decline at 33.0
in the immortal words of The Wicked Witch of the West
…..”SURRENDER DOROTHY” …..
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
““further fighting” brings no gains”
McCain has reached across the aisle 55% of the time to get dim cosponsors on his bills.
Obama -13% of the time.
Wow, thats an impressive non partisan effort.
Obama, NUMBER TWO, on the all time Fannie money list. And your talking about McCains buddys on Wlla Street.
You apparently were part of the Dims “educate the idiot” campaign, targetting minorities, GED;s and drop outs, as detailed here:
http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/bridget/archives/2008/10/educate-them-idiots.html
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:56 pm
***** TONIGHT! ******
We are hosting a good size get-together this evening and need some suggestions for Sarahcuda-Palinisms to get the shots going and the party started
The only ones that I can think of are:
‘In What Respect?’
‘Russia’
‘Putin’
‘drill’
‘moose’
’snow machines’
** Need more, please help! Thanks! **
We will however assign 1 point to take one sip of their drink
Each time Gov. Sarahcuda Palin:
• Wags her finger
• Uses cutesy quips
• Rambles without answering the question
• Talks about hunting moose
• Mentions Alaska’s proximity to Russia
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We’ve excluded the following so as not offend our Republican leaning guests.
‘You betcha’
‘Ya know’
‘I’m a stupid bitch’
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Thanks again!
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Can I come over? Give me an address.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Well, we have $200 MILLION in potential illegal dontations.
Now we have voting irregularities in Ohio; Lou Dobbs appears to be the only one reporting it on TV…just one more reason not too watch TV, of course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iNkh2Gdt0A
Register and vote on the same day???? Great call DIMs.
And now, GOP observers are being kicked out of polling locations per the DIM SOS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weyrE9jLGn0
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
And where is some of this money coming from?????
The FEC has compiled a separate database of potentially questionable overseas donations [to the Obama campaign] that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling $33.8 million. More than 520 listed their “state” as “IR,” often an abbreviation for Iran. Another 63 listed it as “UK,” the United Kingdom.
More than 1,400 of the overseas entries clearly were U.S. diplomats or military personnel, who gave an APO address overseas. Their total contributions came to just $201,680. But others came from places as far afield as Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Beijing, Fallujah, Florence, Italy, and a wide selection of towns and cities in France.
Until recently, the Obama Web site allowed a contributor to select the country where he resided from the entire membership of the United Nations, including such friendly places as North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Unlike McCain’s or Sen. Hillary Clinton’s online donation pages, the Obama site did not ask for proof of citizenship until just recently….
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Did you see the debate BINGO??
Fun for the whole family, and you can make your OWN cards & print them out!
http://www.palinbingo.com/
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Why of course you’re welcomed. Please come!
The following are some of the suggested locations for the 44th President Barack H. Obama official inaugural balls for each Electoral State:
Air and Space Museum, Sixth Street and Independence Avenue SW: Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota, Iowa.
National Building Museum, Fourth and F streets NW: Pennsylvania, Ohio.
Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW: New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island.
Washington Convention Center, Ninth and H streets NW: Hall A: California, Hawaii, Alaska; Hall B: Arkansas, New Hampshire; Hall C: Florida.
Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St. NW: New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia.
Washington Hilton Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW: Exhibit Center: Texas, Louisiana, Missouri; International Ballroom: Washington, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Dakota.
Sheraton Washington Hotel, 2660 Woodley Rd. NW: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama.
D.C. Armory, 2001 East Capitol St. SE: District of Columbia.
Union Station, First Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE: Tennessee.
Old Post Office Pavilion, 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW: Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont.
National Postal Museum, First Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE: 21st Century Ball (young adults).
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Party starts on Tuesday, January 20th 2009 — Subject to further planning, the balls officially start at 7 p.m.; the shuttles will run from 5:30 p.m. to 2 a.m.
National Fireworks start at 9:00 pm
I’ll probably be at the Washington Hilton Hotel
See you there!
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Excellent Katie!
Thanks!
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
And even more information on Obama illegal campaign contributions:
Palestinian brothers inside the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip are listed in government election filings as having donated $29,521.54 to Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign.
Donations of this nature would violate election laws, including prohibitions on receiving contributions from foreigners and guidelines against accepting more than $2,300 from one individual during a single election, Bob Biersack, a spokesman for the Federal Election Commission, told WND in response to a query
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71431
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Cmon psy, why dont you let me come over to your party tonight? Your asking for suggestions, I have some. Your inviting republicans, why not me?
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I in return invote you and Katie to come help us feed the needy this weekend. How about that? Or maybe you can help me work with some abused kids whose parents are doped up? I mean , yall or so compassionate and all….Id think this would be a no brainer, even for you two.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Dohhh….Obama is claiming theyre having a hard time identifying all these illegal donors from afar…yet they has no problem id’ing some other guys who tries to buy 97 Obama for Pres. tshirts:
brothers in the Middle East attempted last year to make $33,000 in illegal donations to the campaign via the internet.
The brothers sought to buy “Obama for President” T-shirts in some 97 attempts, 32 of which were initially successful.
They wrongly identified themselves as American citizens, campaign officials said, and listed their address as “GA”, the abbreviation for Georgia, when in fact they live in a refugee camp in Gaza, a rump city-state between Israel and Egypt that is under the control of Hamas.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/08/05/obama-camp-routed-out-illegal-donations-from-palestinians/
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm
….well it’s official
McCain-Palin_08 has decided to pull its campaign out of Michigan, deeming it a lost cause after internal polls showed the Republican trailing badly in the economically hard-hit state.
A perfect example of a surrender that is both right and honorable.
That’s 17 Electoral Votes for Obama.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:27 pm
cmon psy…I get to VA all the time, visiting Arlington and the in-laws…youre not going to invite me over??
Its official, Obama has pulled out of the Dakotas, Goerdia and Idaho.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Psy great news coming from VA these days….only to get better in a few hours, I’m sure!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1066426/Sarah-Palin-blunders-talks-British-ambassador-took-place-TV-debate-looms.html
Oh hey check it….McCain camp has to apologize to the Brits for making up a fictional meeting between Sarahcuda & the Brit Ambassador!
LOL! Well I’ve never met the guy either but here’s the thing I REMEMBER NOT HAVING MET HIM! But of course I also remember what newspaper I read this morning.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Hey, even more great news from VA Katie “kill them babies” Cowgirl:
THE POLL: Mason-Dixon Polling and Research Inc., survey of 625 registered voters in Virginia. (13 electoral votes.)
THE NUMBERS: John McCain 48 percent, Barack Obama 45 percent.
Maybe McCain is leading because public tax paid teachers are being asked to pass out McCain buttons and to wear red for “McCain Day”
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Haa…speaking of Brits..it would appear their not to keen on Barack “I take money from Iraq” Obama.
Barack Obama is a “decidedly liberal” senator “who was finding his feet, and then got diverted by his presidential ambitions”, according to a frank verdict delivered to Gordon Brown by the British ambassador to the United States.
Exclusive: Barack Obama is ‘aloof’ says British ambassador to US
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3125120/Barack-Obama-is-aloof-says-British-ambassador-to-US.html?mobile=true
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Interesting, yet sad link Katie — they have big problem on their hands. She’s a pathological liar.
She even lies when she doesn’t have to.
-She lied about the broken teleprompter, easily disproved AND unnecessary.
-She lied about “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere.
-She lied about selling the plane on eBay for a profit.
-She lied about being voted Miss Congeniality.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Psy..youre back…arent you going to let me come over, psy?
Teleprompter: Palin never said that , idiot.
“Bridge to Nowhere” : Even the demcratic operatives in Alaska give credit for Palin destroying what Obama voted for. The websote states: “Gov. Palin recently cancelled the Gravina Island Bridge near Ketchikan that would have connected the Alaska mainland with Gravina Island (population: 50)”. Lying idiot
She said specifically she put it on ebay…not “sold it on ebay”…keep stretching, are all you liberals this blatantly dishonet (rhetorical)
Miss Congeniality????? Dolt, go back to Du and KOS.
Shall we compare lies to Barack “I never heard that in any sermon” Obama…or Joe “I made that up in my head on the way to the speech” the plagiarizer Biden.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Suppose Biden will ask “wheelchair bound ” Gwen to stand up and take a bow ? God love ya Gwen !! You got em on the ropes UFB!!!!!!!
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:31 pm
God love ya….to dang funny right is right.
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 am
UFBrett,
Don’t worry bee happy! What do expect from a couple of minimum wage hacks that only owrk for Barry because he know where the good “Blow” is.
Besides I hear Palin mopped the floor with “Just stand up” Joe.
And Katie no matter how many pictures you post of yourself you’ll never convice anyone that your better looking that the Sarah “the Pit bull” Palin.
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I like this part:
“Thus far, Newsmax is one of the few publications to cover the Obama campaign finance scam story.”
In related story, World Weekly News is one of the few publications to cover the BatBoy story.
Hey how come Mooselini never makes use of the SOS bombshells, did you see? They asked flat out who is responsible for the mortgage mess and she was like “You BETCHA it’s the predatory loan companies!”
But….but….WHY DIDN’T SHE SAY IT WAS JIMMY CARTER AND HIS LET-THE-NEGROES-BUY-HOUSES 1977 DEBACLE? Isn’t that what I read here?
Hmmmm……
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Your really going to like this part then Katie:
Remember all that money those guys in Gaza gave to that clean, articulate Obama…you know, the one Carter called black boy the other day??
Obama lied again, see Joe Bidens debate perfomance for other examples of lying. He NEVER gave the money back:
Palestinians Deny Obama Returned Illegal Contributions, Says Reporter Aaron
Klein
Candidate’s staffers insist Gaza brothers refunded, but men say, ‘We did not
receive any money back’
JERUSALEM, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In response to a WND story, Sen.
Barack Obama’s campaign contends it returned $33,500 in illegal contributions from Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza, but the donors told Aaron Klein of
WND today they have not received any money.
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS199627+06-Aug-2008+PRN20080806