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Watchdog group: Delaware candidate's spending 'flat-out illegal'
CNN ^ | September 18, 2010 | Staff

Posted on 09/18/2010 8:43:10 AM PDT by Java4Jay

A watchdog group says it plans to ask authorities in Delaware to investigate Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's finances.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: christineodonnell; cod; crew; delaware; georgesoros
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

That is the only fact I have to know to give Christine the benefit of the doubt.


81 posted on 09/18/2010 9:27:24 AM PDT by mimaw
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

I don’t know about Soros being a Judenrat, but we can agree that using a term with such a loaded history is probably not a good thing. There must be some other way to describe what you are saying - perhaps “collaborator”? Or simply, a “Soros-paid stooge”?

If Soros is supporting CREW, it would have to be in their financial disclosures. If they aren’t being honest, then it’s time to audit THEM. Aren’t there any Conservatives able to go after their financials?


82 posted on 09/18/2010 9:28:01 AM PDT by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: Java4Jay

Whatever her virtues and vices this ‘Gal’ really set off a blast. That is the most interesting feature arising out of her election. I think the response to this lady does reveal a self proclaimed “elite” that exists irrespective of political party.


83 posted on 09/18/2010 9:29:27 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: dragnet2

You know such a lawsuit is going to be vigorously defended when the fired plaintiff sues for an amount that is more than 100 times her annual salary.


84 posted on 09/18/2010 9:30:12 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Krankor

This is the information we should be interested in at this point.
Coons Increased Property Taxes Three Times As County Executive
In 2009, Coons Proposed A 25 Percent Increase In The Property Tax, The Second Largest Increase In County History. (Angie Basiouny, “Coons’ 2010 Proposal Hits Hard — And Broad,” The [Wilmington, DE] News Journal, 3/18/09)
In 2007, Coons Proposed Raising Property Taxes 17.5 Percent.The [Wilmington, DE] News Journal, 3/21/07) (Angie Basiouny, “17 Percent Tax Hike Proposed For NCCo,”
In 2006, Coons Proposed Increasing Property Taxes Five Percent. (Alison Kepner, “Residents Say Tax Hike Small, But Express Fears For Future,” The [Wilmington, DE] News Journal, 5/16/06)
Spending Increased During Coons’ Tenure In County Government................


85 posted on 09/18/2010 9:31:41 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: kearnyirish2

We are all guilty of something, but I doubt that she did anything that was never done by Biden et Dems, and if she did I’d suspect it would be more on par with ignorance of arcane campaign laws rather than intent to disenfranchise the voter, and even then it she would have to have done something on par with committing forcible rape or getting thugs to hang out at polling places with nightsticks or driving off a bridge and letting a co-worker drown before I’d even consider not supporting her.


86 posted on 09/18/2010 9:32:59 AM PDT by Tribune7 (The Democrat Party is not a political organization but a religious cult.)
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To: Java4Jay

I’m not sure how they can prove things like personal rent came from campaign funds unless she wrote it on a campaign account check. More likely than not, they are making assumptions. The bowling outing and expenses on gas could be considered campaign expenses depending on the details behind it. Even part of rent could be if she used her home as a campaign office, but it would have to be expensed on the back end; that could simply be a bookkeeping error on her part.


87 posted on 09/18/2010 9:34:02 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: InABunkerUnderSF; worst-case scenario

In point of fact, Soros told Michael Lewis in an article for The New Republic in 1994 that he was indeed an employee of the Budapest Judenrat. That’s a matter of public record.


88 posted on 09/18/2010 9:34:46 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: ozark hilljilly

Hypocrites, all of them. Why aren’t they pushing for investigations of all the members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Bunch of corrupt thieves all of them.


89 posted on 09/18/2010 9:37:15 AM PDT by rep-always
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
Wonder who funds them.

Soros Open Society, for one. They are a "progressive" group, and almost all their actions have targeted Republicans.

90 posted on 09/18/2010 9:39:00 AM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Java4Jay

Viral smears, paid commenters and controlling the top 1 percent of the blogsphere is not enough...

Delaware GOP Senate primary victor Christine O’Donnell has been accused of

“living on campaign donations—using them for rent and personal expenses.” This might sound illegal but it’s not necessarily.
But the regulations explicitly allow candidates to pay themselves a salary (as long as it doesn’t exceed what they made “as earned income in the previous year”). ...

P.S. check out her new website that gives the answers and DOCUMENTATION to the questions.


91 posted on 09/18/2010 9:39:14 AM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: mnehring

According to O’Donnell herself, the home she is currently sharing with David Hust is paid for by her campaign and doubles as a campaign offices. She says she is subletting part of the home as living quarters from her campaign. So if her campaign is the official tenant of the home she lives in, she needs to have clear records showing that she is reimbursing her campaign as a sublessee. And there’s no evidence that she hasn’t kept such records.


92 posted on 09/18/2010 9:39:51 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Java4Jay

“By 2003, John Podesta’s Center for American Progress was preparing a daily news summary promoting the organization’s left-leaning agenda. Every morning, officials from the center would apprise Sakol of their daily message. With the help of outside advisers and Daschle’s aides, she would then prepare the rapid-response message of the day for Senate Democrats. Sakol found it odd— “almost backwards”—that outsiders, many of whom were loyal Clintonites, were quietly framing the messages on issues for all the Democrats in the Senate. Hillary had no such reservations, for obvious reasons.

Concurrently, and on her own time, Sakol was involved in discussions about the formation of another nonprofit, left-leaning group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which focused on government corruption. It was Hillary’s “proactive” efforts in this area and her desire to “beat the GOP at their own game” that prompted CREW’s founder, Melanie Sloan, a former prosecutor, to invite Sakol to the initial brainstorming sessions in 2003 where CREW was born. CREW was organized as a tax-exempt nonpartisan group, and on occasion, it has taken on Democratic targets. But since the Congress and the executive branch were in Republican hands at the time of its founding, its investigations were bound to focus on Republicans.

Sakol alerted Hillary and her staff about the newly forming group and its need for “Democratic progressive money.” The hope was that CREW would prove to be a perfect counterbalance to Judicial Watch, the corruption watchdog that had tormented the Clintons with lawsuits and press conferences throughout the 1990s. Hillary’s pollster and strategist Mark Penn became a director and vice president of CREW. “CREW could do things the senators couldn’t do,” Sakol said. And once CREW’s charges “were out in the press,” Sakol noted, other people could cite the findings of the group, which was usually portrayed as nonpartisan in news accounts. CREW played a significant role in unearthing several congressional scandals, including helping a retiring Democratic congressman from Texas to file a complaint against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.”

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/her-way-on-hillary-crew-and-media-matters

Muckety is your friend. Podesta showed up........


93 posted on 09/18/2010 9:41:46 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: wideawake

If that is the case, it is perfectly acceptable and legal, it is just a matter of producing the correct records. Not only that, but I believe it is pretty common, especially among incumbent representatives who have to have a place to live in DC and their home districts. For example, a rep from Tampa has a house in DC most of the year, but has to show residency in Tampa to represent them. He may not be able to afford two mortgages so the campaign buys his home in Tampa and rents part of it back to the candidate to live in. The paperwork would be a nightmare, but it is legit. They couldn’t do this with the DC home because you aren’t running for office in DC.


94 posted on 09/18/2010 9:45:50 AM PDT by mnehring
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CREW Muckety & links....

http://www.muckety.com/Query?name=citizens+for+responsibility&prev=citizens+for+responsibility&SearchResult=5012410&SearchResult=5033810&graph=MucketyMap

Looks like DOJ is a second cousin once removed.


95 posted on 09/18/2010 9:47:44 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Java4Jay
"Any feedback ? "

She's 41, single and cute as a button.

96 posted on 09/18/2010 9:52:37 AM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: tirednvirginia

The once “magnificent bastard” has jumped the political shark and earned his new moniker in spades. With one felt swoop he whitewashed all past successes as he accepted his 30 pieces of demoRat silver.

Always Republican but never Conservative Karl is a misogynist member of the beltway old boys club, like so many other aged and washed up Repubs that are desperately trying to cling to their last shreds of credibility.

To conclude, this “has-been” just broke his last strand and I could not think of a more fitting title than Tokyo Rove. I will never refer to him in any other way ever again and hope he fades into the trashbin of irrelevancy.

Sincerely,

JerseyDvl from Texas who has no horse in this race but is fed up with the hypocritical double standards and blatant sexism.


97 posted on 09/18/2010 9:53:03 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (Sometimes the road less traveled.... is less traveled for a reason.)
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To: Krankor
She is incredibly photogenic but, from what dribs and drabs I’ve been hearing, she appears to be a bit...um...eccentric, to say the least.

First of all, know that BUT always negates any statement put in front of it. Regardless of that, are you saying you base your electoral opinions on appearance? Second, unsubstantiated "dribs and drabs" concern you more than the words "Bearded Marxist" ?

98 posted on 09/18/2010 9:54:48 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Part of that 9.5% that's really more like 20%, Let's call it what it is: The Great O-pression)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
under then-Chairman Joseph Biden (D-DE).

LOL! Next job, under Tiger Woods!

99 posted on 09/18/2010 9:55:33 AM PDT by melancholy (It ain't Camelot, it's Scam-a-lot!)
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To: Eldon Tyrell

THANK YOU. I was really getting dissappointed in this thread — everybody was pretending they were lefties, attacking the messenger instead of discussing the message.

It is nice to see SOMEBODY actually read the article to see what the allegations were, and answered the allegations.


100 posted on 09/18/2010 10:00:22 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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