Obama Backers Seek to Shut Down Pro-Clinton Organization

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 02-23-08 | By BRODY MULLINS and T.W. FARNAM

[MNJohnnie]

A group of Barack Obama backers are seeking to shut down an outside political group launched last week to fund television advertisements lauding New York Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Three supporters of the Illinois Democrat mailed a complaint to the Federal Election Commission today charging that the pro-Clinton organization is violating election laws.

[MNJohnnie]

Pass the popcorn please.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

This is going to get interesting. I love it when the libs eat their own!

[Greg F]

In America they are going to court to shut down political speech. F the popcorn. This sort of crap means that one day we’ll be saying pass the ammunition while facing Black Hawks and Abrams tanks.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I’m gonna make up a big batch..you want extra butter on that?

[MNJohnnie]

They are going to court to enforce the law against a corrupt, feckless political machine. If you don’t like the law, change it. Don’t cheer on those corrupt machine politicians, who pushed the law on us, then turned right around and started breaking it.

The Clintons are being mousetrapped by laws they supported. It is simple justice.

[MNJohnnie]

Works for me!

[I_Like_Spam]

All 3 of the remaining candidates supported McCain Feingold.

Good for them, they deserve this plague of litigation as they are the ones who brought it about.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

but, but, they thought it would be used against the vast right wing conspiracy NEVER expecting it to be used by lib vs. lib..and delightful it is..:)

[EagleUSA]

In America they are going to court to shut down political speech.
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It does seem to be a mindset nowadays, does it not? McVain, et al, including our great President, signed similar legislation banishing First Amendment rights —— and the beat goes on. While we still have a SCOTUS that cares something about the Constitution, they had better put this kind of crap to rest real fast -— or there will be big trouble ahead for this country that was founded on FREE SPEECH and many other fought-for, died-for and paid-for RIGHTS.

[YOUGOTIT]

She should have sent out the letter about his buying another man in a bar with cocaine some 9 years ago.

[Mr_Moonlight]

There is nothing to gloat about with this. It is predicated on the provisions of McCain/Feingold which disallows outside groups from placing advertising for or against a named candidate within 30 days before a primary election. A clear cut violation of the 1st Amendment right to free 'political' speech.

To gloat would be to ignore the first name on that act, which happens to be our next Republican standard bearer.

Chilling effect, indeed .........

[MNJohnnie]

Ok, so instead we should cheer on the corrupt machine politicians who brought us this disaster of a law then turned right around and started finding ways to ignore it?

They are being mouse trapped by their own creation. That is simple justice.

[robomatik]

[MtnClimber]

Let the purges begin!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

"Er, Senator Clinton, some have suggested that you may be in violation of federal election laws."

[Old Sarge]

Buried in the article:

Founders of the Clinton organization, called the American Leadership Project, didn't respond immediately to a request for comment on the complaint.

Don't know much about them, but then, they're a Clinton machine cog.

Why complain to the FEC, anyways? Didn't they keep the FEC from being sufficiently staffed, in order to HATE BUSH GET BUSH STOP BUSH IMPEACH BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH BUSH!

[reasonisfaith]

Looks like Pretense is doing its best to cheat Corruption. This should be good.

(I’ll be really surprised if Hillary takes this lying down.)

[SandRat]

Good little Brown Shirts from the 1938 Nuremberg Rallies they are.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

All 3 of the remaining candidates supported McCain Feingold.

And Amnesty. And banning drilling in ANWR.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Some info about the ALP "leadership":

The American Leadership Project is operated by:

* Jason Kinney, a former senior communications advisor and the chief speechwriter to former California Governor Gray Davis

* Erick Mullen, a political consultant who has worked for the presidential campaigns of retired General Wesley Clark, former Senator Bill Bradley, and the 1998 Senate run of Chuck Schumer

* Mattis Goldman, a former ad maker for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman U.S. Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland

* Paul Rivera, a senior political adviser for the 2004 Kerry-Edwards campaign, and a former Clinton/Gore White House staffer

* Roger Salazar, who worked as assistant press secretary in the Clinton/Gore White House, a national spokesman for Senator John Edwards’ during the 2004 presidential race, a national spokesman and the deputy press secretary of the 2000 presidential campaign of Al Gore, and as the press secretary for former California Governor Gray Davis

The law firm representing the group is Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, LLC. Accounting and bookkeeping is being handled by Nancy Warren of the San Francisco-based Warren & Associates LLC.