Democrat Vice Presidential Candidate Joey Biden (Delaware)
With potential conflicts of interest Vice Presidential Candidate Senator Joseph Biden (D-Delaware) has paid more than $2 million in campaign cash to his family members, their businesses and employers.
More Democrat Hypocrisy.
The money largely flowed from the coffers of Mr. Biden’s failed presidential campaign during the past two years to a company that employs his sister and longtime campaign manager, Valerie Biden Owens, according to campaign disclosure filings.
The senator from Delaware also directed campaign legal work to a Washington lobbying and law firm founded by his son R. Hunter Biden, the disclosures show.
Putting family members and their companies on the political payroll is legal if the work is legitimate and charged at market rates, according to the Federal Election Commission. Still, public watchdog groups have long criticized such arrangements.
“Even though legal within restraints, it’s not something I view as completely ethical,” said Craig Holman, legislative director for Public Citizen, a campaign finance watchdog organization. “Any candidate ought to shy away from that.”
Aides to Mr. Biden said all of the payments he has made to family members or their employers were aboveboard.
“While no Biden family members are being paid by the Obama-Biden campaign, one of Joe Biden´s greatest political strengths and secret weapon has always been his sister Valerie, starting with her role managing his David-versus-Goliath upset Senate victory in 1972,” said Biden spokesman David Wade.
“Valerie is a well-known and highly regarded political operative in Democratic politics in Delaware and nationally, and her firm has worked on top races from Michigan to Texas. End of story,” Mr. Wade said.
Tags: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Culture Of Corruption, Democrat Hypocrisy, Democrat Party, Joe Biden, Liberal Hypocrisy, Low Wattage Of The Liberal Mindset, MSM, National Politics, U.S. Senate
Stumble It!
October 15th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Gee. How come this isn’t gettin the same play in the Press, as Governor Palin trying to get a State Trooper with mulltiple DUI’s, ILLEGALLY POACHED a Moose, TASERED his 10 year old step-son, and threatened HER FATHERS’ LIFE, off the force? Do ya think it’s BIAS? Noooo.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:09 am
EXACTLY!!! MEDIA 100% BIASED!!!!
October 15th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Why isn’t the media talking about Mccain’s strategist Rick Davis being paid hundreds of thousands by Freddie Mac to do nothing?
October 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Also, the person charged with planning the McCain administration, William Timmons, lobbied for Saddam Hussein in an effort to get the international community off his back.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Obama’s fraud knows no boundary.
A Swiss citizen witnessed voter fraud in Switzerland and wrote the following at
http://purplepeoplevote.com/2008/10/05/funny-funding-for-obama/
Leon48, on October 6th, 2008 at 6:26 pm Said:
I am swiss and resident in Geneva, Switzerland.
1) I certify that the Obama campaign has raised money from SWISS residents (not US citizens!)
2) I can also certify that at a fundraising reception help in my town Geneva in early sept., several people gave the Obama campaign about 20?000 usd each which is way above the legal limits in your country.
On my local Geneva TV, a SWISS donor has actually declared “it is our duty - as swiss citizens - to help elect a black candidate because this is a historic and fantastic thing”.
I stand ready to witness and bring proof backing up my statement. I dont know who to contact in usa so I am just tryin to post a few messagges under some articles appearin to raise the question of fraudulent donations to Obama.
Leon Fiss, Geneva, Switzerland
I’ve heard similar stories from friends in Switzerland, France and Germany.
I contacted local TV channels in the States but (probably because I live in a blue state) I only got cookie cutter responses “Thank you for contacting us.”
I also contacted several French language TV stations and newspapers in Switzerland and France, but they are not intereted in this story. Unfortunately the French media are just as biased as the American media, so let’s contact BBC, Times and ITN and some German media(much fairer when it comes to McCain than the French media) and ask them to investigate!
BBC (They have offices all over Europe)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_3950000/newsid_3959100/3959111.stm
Times Online’s Newsdesk (They also have bureaus all over Europe)
news@timesonline.co.uk
ITN (They too have mumerous bureaus in Europe)
news@itn.co.uk.
Also contact Schweizer Fernsehen(German Language Swiss TV) and Der Spiegel (a provocative German magazine)
Since I can’t write letters with umlaut(2 dots on a, e, o) here, I posted a template letter in German at the bottom of the following page.
http://colberturdead2me.wordpress.com/
with English translation of the Spiegel’s “Contact us” format.
Please copy and paste the German letter and send it to Schweizer Fernsehen and Der Spiegel!
Email this to your friends, post this on your blog and ask your readers to contact overseas media!
Hope we can get their attention!
October 16th, 2008 at 10:51 am
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