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RNC to File FEC Complaint on Obama Fundraising Practices
washingtonpost.com ^ | 10/05/08 | Matthew Mosk

Posted on 10/05/2008 11:29:06 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3

A lawyer for the Republican National Committee today said the party will ask the Federal Election Commission to look into the source of thousands of small-dollar contributions to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack 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.

"We believe that the American people should know first and foremost if foreign money is pouring into a presidential election," said RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross.

Cairncross alleged there was mounting evidence of this, and cited an Oct. 4 report in Newsweek that documents a handful of instances where donors made repeated small donations using fake names, such as "Good Will" and "Doodad Pro."

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaignfinance; corruptdems; donors; doodadpro; fec; fundraising; goodwill; obama; rnc
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To: TornadoAlley3
Half of Obama's Entire Campaign Warchest May Come Illegally Come from Foreign Sources
121 posted on 10/05/2008 6:10:31 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Lord please bless our nation with John McCain as president and Sarah Palin as Vice President! Amen.)
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To: littlehouse36
Thank you! It seems that some around here hate their Party as much as Dems hate their country.

On the one hand, it's not "my" party. On the other hand, they keep this up and they may earn my respect again. Maybe...

122 posted on 10/05/2008 6:15:40 PM PDT by meyer (Go, Sarah, Go!!)
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To: GnuHere

Just my opinion ...


123 posted on 10/05/2008 6:19:39 PM PDT by Jackson57
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To: RoseofTexas; Old Sarge

I also wrote down the sarge’s comments to remind me and others of how wonderful our God is when he delivers a victory for freedom in November. Prayers are needed now.


124 posted on 10/05/2008 6:37:31 PM PDT by Optimom
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To: TornadoAlley3

Well Fear is a great motivator and I think all Conservatives would be smart to Fear Obama. Because the more he talks the more apparent it becomes he means to stamp out Conservatism in its entirety.

If Obama were to win it wouldn’t surprise me to see a future where it was a crime to espouse Conservative beliefs.


125 posted on 10/05/2008 6:46:18 PM PDT by tomnbeverly (Night of the Obama Zombies (Premier 11/04/08. Coming to a neighborhood near you))
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To: RoseofTexas
"Only God can stop their wicked deeds!"

Yes We He Can!

Let's do all that we can, spread the word about Obama, and pray that God will have mercy on us and bless the USA again instead of turning His back on us and leaving us to the judgment we deserve. But, no matter what - His blessed Will be done.

126 posted on 10/05/2008 7:06:43 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: Jeff Chandler

Sure they’ll look into. Next year.
***And the MSM will say they never heard of it nor had any clue of any wrongdoings.


127 posted on 10/05/2008 9:28:35 PM PDT by Kevmo (McCain's learning from Palin how to win a national election. Palin's learning from him how to lose 1)
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To: Amityschild; PhilDragoo; devolve; y'all

ObaMarxist Illegal campaign $$.

Next up?? ...

ILLEGAL VOTERS !!!!


128 posted on 10/05/2008 10:12:06 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: ladyvet
Day late and a dollar short guys.....

Not at all. In fact, most people STILL aren't paying attention and won't for another two weeks.

It's prime time, baby!
129 posted on 10/05/2008 10:19:23 PM PDT by Antoninus (Ignore the polls. They're meant to shape public opinion, not measure it.)
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To: timestax

130 posted on 10/05/2008 11:09:56 PM PDT by timestax
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To: TornadoAlley3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ

RNC needs to cut this into a one minute ad and spend 50 million.


131 posted on 10/05/2008 11:11:14 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Filing a complaint?

How about spending some of that record loot in the bank account and running commercials over and over about Obama and his corruption. And I mean over and over. It seems like that is the only way you get it thru the Sheeple’s heads.


132 posted on 10/05/2008 11:12:19 PM PDT by The South Texan (The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
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To: Amityschild

Your points are excellent. They should be shouted from the rooftops.

How can anyone not see this?????

(p.s. You could have put in even more exclamation points.)


133 posted on 10/06/2008 2:23:59 AM PDT by generally (Ask me about FReepers Folding@Home)
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To: TornadoAlley3; Amityschild; PhilDragoo; devolve; y'all; MeekOneGOP

Thanks to all of you for strengthening and renewing my hope that Obama might still be defeated. And thanks to McCain & Palin & the RNC for finally taking some swings. I think they are going to connect.

Although it would be nice to stem the flow of illegal money and to put people in jail, I don’t think it ultimately matters. What ultimately matters is whether Obama can be stopped. This is going to help stop him by forcing the public to find out who he really is and what he stands for,

2 tiny bits of info:
1. I think even some in the MSM may be having second thoughts. I watched the SNL skits about the 2 debates. Of course they mocked McCain & Palin. But IMO Obama & Biden came off much worse. It’s hard for me to be totally objective because my biases are for McCain/Palin, against Obama/Biden and against the MSM in the sense that I don’t believe they are fair. But I have to say I thought they were at the least even-handed with these skits. They brought up graft and corruption with Obama, which, if I were in the tank for him I would not have touched.

I think that in order to do good satire, you have to really understand your subject. A newswriter or editorial writer can make up whatever they want, but the comedy writers need to hit close to home. In order to do that, they’ve been forced to take a closer look at Obama. I’m thinking they might not really like what they see when they look too close.

2. Just anecdotal evidence, but there is a huge McCain/Palin banner on a corner I drive past a couple of times a week. It’s been defaced since the first time I saw it. This is much like the keying of cars with McCain/Palin bumper stickers. At some point, people have to ask themselves, do you want to align yourselves with thugs? They are thugs on so many levels! The banner vandalism is just one tiny low level example. It starts at the top and goes all the way to the bottom. (Yet the lefties don’t believe in “trickle down” effects. ;-) ) At first I hoped they would replace the banner, but now I think of it as carrying an additional message.


134 posted on 10/06/2008 2:48:19 AM PDT by generally (Ask me about FReepers Folding@Home)
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To: Amityschild

I think I dated a Doodad once....

/tease

bump Amity!

And if you do get a hold of them, see if you can get them to look into the foreign donations as possible bundlers for Nadhmi Auchi. He co-conspired with fellow Baathist Saddam Hussein in 1959 to assassinate then Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim. Rezko and Obama are both financially connected to him.

More, http://blog.barofintegrity.us


135 posted on 10/06/2008 3:30:51 AM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: generally; Conspiracy Guy; y'all
Thank you!


136 posted on 10/06/2008 7:16:11 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: raptor29

bump


137 posted on 10/06/2008 8:35:05 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW ,)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

They will never do anything about it un til we get better at cheatin than they do.


138 posted on 10/06/2008 8:36:27 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW ,)
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To: TornadoAlley3

FEC = the UN of American Politics


139 posted on 10/06/2008 8:41:57 AM PDT by demsux
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To: timestax

bttt


140 posted on 10/06/2008 7:10:04 PM PDT by timestax
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