[maggief]

“To make sure that he wasn’t an obvious campaign supporter, we took the next step of looking in the FEC records, to make sure he hadn’t contributed, which I think is the best way to make sure someone’s not in a campaign. People who really are give money,” Bohrman said.

[johnny7]

He was also a contributor to a CNN discussion in 2003... it would have shown up on a simple search.