Posted on 07/01/2011 5:10:50 AM PDT by markomalley
A video of President Barack Obama filmed in the White House and included in a fundraising e-mail sent to supporters is not legal, two election law experts told CNSNews.com.
The video was included in an e-mail sent to supporters of President Obama promoting a fundraising drive that offered participants a chance to win an invitation to dinner with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
The video was filmed in the White House and, because it is intended to raise funds, constitutes a violation of federal law, according to two election law experts contacted by CNSNews.com.
“I think this is a violation [of the law],” Cleta Mitchell, a member of the American Bar Association’s election law committee, told CNSNews.com.
“It is a specific prohibition on solicitation [of money] by the president, the vice president, or any member of Congress on any federal property,” she said.
According to federal law (Title 18, subsection 607 U.S.C.), “It shall be unlawful for an individual who is an officer or employee of the Federal Government, including the President, Vice President, and Members of Congress, to solicit or receive a donation of money or other thing of value in connection with a Federal, State, or local election, while in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties.”
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And....Not even one person with any influence will stand up to stop him!!!! BINGO! **THIS** is the moral rot that will kill our nation's experiment in self government.
Tyranny is coming...SOON! It may not be Obama and his minions. Maybe it will be a different cabal, but it is coming!
Think about this! Not even ONE person stood up for the Constitution with Obama’s TWO posted forgeries, real evidence of identity theft, social security fraud, immigration and adoption issues, and real concerns regarding his natural born status. There is silence about his foreign travels and passports used. Unsolved murders are associated with this man. No one remembers Obama’s shadow darkening the campus of Columbia University.
The moral rot extends to **every** state and federal legislator, every governor, every state attorney general, all prosecutors across the nation, every member of the electoral college, President Bush and Cheney, every judge approached, every member of the Supreme Court, every member of our very highest military, all the mainstream Marxist media, and most of the conservative media. ALL have been silent!
ALL those listed above is evidence the moral gangrene killing our nation. Obama is merely the smell in the room. If it isn't Obama, it will be someone else who will bring this nation down.
By the way...Of all the people listed our highest military and the conservative media have been the most disappointing. Gee! I trusted these guys. ( Silly me!)
This entire admin is illegal.
Rules are only for the little people.
I hate it when you are right.
I wonder if official WH equipment like lighting and cameras was used.
If I’m not mistaken, Congresscritters have to have a separate personal phone line to use for campaign calls from their offices as it is against the law to use goverment phones.
Drone kills in 6 countries, who’s next Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Mexico, USA? Since he has already won the Nobel Peace Prize, doesn’t anyone care anymore? Even code pink is silent, and doesn’t even bother to show up for congressional hearings.
Attorney General dismisses all cases involving the president or his political friends.
Acorn, illegal donations, cartoon voters, undocumented voters the lists are endless.
Now explain to me why anyone would expect the undocumented squatter in our white house to start doing anything legal... Why would he change? Who has ever called him onto the carpet for anything?
Political Cancer is in final stages, terminal case for ALL that had the duty to do something, and didn’t, including you and me. We sit at our keyboards and hide behind the screens, safe and sound only b*tching and no more.
Bring it on 0BAMA, the whole world worships you and will obey your every wish.
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