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Obama attracting more small donors
LAT ^ | June 25, 2011 | Tom Hamburger

Posted on 06/25/2011 10:08:51 PM PDT by upchuck

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To: upchuck
Hmmm, one wonders, does this sound like a money laundering/bundling/union operation?

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21 posted on 06/26/2011 12:05:08 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: upchuck

This just means they’ve ramped up the campaign funding fraud.

Based on what they did in 2008, they have the fraud controls in the online payment gateway turned off so that multiple small payments can be made with the same card using different names and addresses and even from foreign countries.

All of it illegal of course, but is Holder’s justice department going to investigate?


22 posted on 06/26/2011 12:33:37 AM PDT by Valpal1 ("No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet." ~ C.S. Lewis)
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To: upchuck

A 100-man boiler room operation using $100 Visa gift cards supplied by the likes of George Soros can easily funnel a million untraceable dollars a day to a crook’s campaign.


23 posted on 06/26/2011 12:40:00 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: upchuck

Many of the “small” donors turned out to be credit card fraud last time. Funny thing was, the credit card companies don’t seem to have gotten their money back.


24 posted on 06/26/2011 12:44:41 AM PDT by Ingtar (Together we go broke (from a Pookie18 post))
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To: upchuck

Three hundred thousand people who sent in $5 for a raffle ticket to win a rubber chicken dinner with Baraq.


25 posted on 06/26/2011 1:55:04 AM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: upchuck
The small donor campaign operations.


26 posted on 06/26/2011 2:05:02 AM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: upchuck
Obama attracting more small donors

All his regular donors from 4 years ago are back.....

Donald Duck, Min E. Mouse, Yosemite Sam, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Rage Boy, The Seven Dwarfs, Harriette Tubman, G. W. Carver, K. Marx, D. W. Washburn, Marie Antoinette.......


27 posted on 06/26/2011 2:21:43 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: upchuck; All

Start the fraud early enough, the media will NEVER ask about fraud from a Democrat from Chicago.


28 posted on 06/26/2011 3:41:33 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: upchuck

Boy, they must really love that 4 bucks per gallon gas.


29 posted on 06/26/2011 3:51:50 AM PDT by Waco (Nominate Palin or forget 2012 you lost)
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To: Patrick1

1 and done


30 posted on 06/26/2011 3:55:04 AM PDT by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: SatinDoll

At 10 bucks a pop, that is a night out in NYC with the misses.


31 posted on 06/26/2011 4:14:35 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Sarah Palin, the only candidate to be vetted by the NY Times, the Washington Post and NBC.)
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To: upchuck

Thanks for the update. No need to get into conspiracy theories like debit card fraud, Soros, etc. Just pay attention to what Obama’s boy says:

“’We had 180,000 contributors at this point in the last campaign; now it’s well over 300,000,’ said spokesman Ben LaBolt...”

No freaking duh. At this point in the last campaign Obama was behind Hillary and maybe even Edwards.

Stats lie, and etc., why is it so difficult for the LAT to put things into context to better inform their readers. Oh, nevermind, Olbermann’s on Current TV, I guess they are all busy building his viewership, ha ha ha.


32 posted on 06/26/2011 4:17:24 AM PDT by Gothmog (I fight for Xev)
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To: Seaplaner
Hmmm, one wonders, does this sound like a money laundering/bundling/union operation?

Yep, don't be surprised if you see an order for a million "Made in the USA" mugs from a "company" in Europe.

33 posted on 06/26/2011 5:02:35 AM PDT by TheCipher
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

It’s the same pool of donors, it’s just that he’s ruined their finances, so they can’t give as much.

Thanks upchuck.


34 posted on 06/26/2011 5:45:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: Rocky
This is undoubtedly campaign finance crime before our very eyes. Only large donors get scrutinized.

Bingo! Change a letter in a name or a number in the address and you've got another identity. Get a boat load of pre-paid credit cards and it's untraceable.

35 posted on 06/26/2011 6:52:05 AM PDT by bgill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds like the soros millions of “gift card” contributions, each of which are just below the report $ level. Just like 2008, soros can slip in way more than he’s legally able to do otherwise.

This was a relatively new ploy in 08, hoping this time some of our GOP leaders take the opportunity to expose or cut this off. Still the question of where’s the big contributors, may show many of nobama’s big money folks see the writing on the 2012 wall.


36 posted on 06/26/2011 9:05:20 AM PDT by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: upchuck

Just more of the same corrupt stuff he did last time. Bundlers pretending to collect from lots of small donors, donations from Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, donations from Arab terrorists rebundled as something else.

And, no doubt, a few jerks entering the lottery to win a lunch date with The One—which is also illegal.


37 posted on 06/26/2011 10:02:41 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: upchuck

I don’t see money as an issue for either side in this election. However the massive amounts that D’s & R’s will have pretty much guarantees failure for any third party challenger.


38 posted on 06/26/2011 10:05:04 AM PDT by nascarnation
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.... # 17.

39 posted on 06/26/2011 12:27:18 PM PDT by LucyT
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