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DNC sues to block McCain spending

Oliver

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Ahhh - it was about time that there's some real action arriving at the boring campaigns:
The Democratic National Committee is set to file a complaint (.pdf) in federal court against the Federal Election Commission, saying the regulatory agency has failed to act on a request to investigate and take action against Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential-nominee-in-waiting, for reversing his decision to use public money in the general election. In February, the DNC asked the FEC to look into whether the McCain campaign violated federal election law by using the promise of federal matching funds for loans and by exceeding the $50 million spending limit for the primaries. The FEC has been unable to make a quorum since the initial DNC request.

Even before the Democrats submitted their February complaint, the FEC mailed the McCain campaign a letter asking for an explanation of an agreement it entered into with Fidelity Bank and Trust Bank of Bethesda. Democrats say that agreement is proof the McCain team violated the law.

Full Source: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/dnc-wants-court.html
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I'd say leave it Oliver. This will be the opening for Obama to without comment refuse himself, so that he can use the hundreds of millions he will gather, in addition to the sum he already has.

TAM:)
 
Oliver, the GOP is NOT going to dump McCain and nominate Ron Paul. Give it a rest, guy.
 
T.A.M. said:
I'd say leave it Oliver. This will be the opening for Obama to without comment refuse himself, so that he can use the hundreds of millions he will gather, in addition to the sum he already has.

TAM:)
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Yeah, let's wait until the Dem candidates have their biggest fundraising successes ever to start griping about how to spend it.

Republicans LOVE Howard Dean. :D
 
T.A.M. said:
This will be the opening for Obama to without comment refuse himself, so that he can use the hundreds of millions he will gather, in addition to the sum he already has.
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Good thinking! If John McCain refuses to obey campaign finance laws :warning1, he must, regretably, withdraw from the public financing system while still holding the moral high ground. :D

Take that Karl Rove! :hit::hit::hit: The good guys win one! Pwned!!! Pwned!!!
 
Could the GOP raise more than the money public funding would have given them at this point? They are about as popular as CBS on the night America turned on their televisions to find Coy and Vance in the General Lee.
 
They probably could, but they will not raise even close to the amount Obama will raise, if he wins the nomination.

TAM:)
 
It would be sweet justice to see McCain run foul of the hideous McCain-Feingold campaign finance "reform" wouldn't it?

Meanwhile, Obama is still sucking down the dollars from Big Oil executives and others.

Obama takes donations from persons in groups he opposes

"People in the oil and gas industries have given $222,309 to Obama. He received $528,765 from the pharmaceutical and health industry, making him the largest recipient of the sector's largesse."

Now that's change we can believe in. Eh?
 
SO if people who are employed with McDonalds, region managers etc, decide they want to give to Obama, is he guilty of taking money from Big Fast Food?

TAM;)
 
kallsop said:
It would be sweet justice to see McCain run foul of the hideous McCain-Feingold campaign finance "reform" wouldn't it?

Meanwhile, Obama is still sucking down the dollars from Big Oil executives and others.

Obama takes donations from persons in groups he opposes

"People in the oil and gas industries have given $222,309 to Obama. He received $528,765 from the pharmaceutical and health industry, making him the largest recipient of the sector's largesse."

Now that's change we can believe in. Eh?
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Obama told the crowd that's why he doesn't accept contributions from political action committees or lobbyists.

"They're not funding my campaign. They won't run my White House," he said.

However, campaign finance records show that Obama has received tens of thousands of dollars from people in many of the same groups and industries he regularly rails against.

"He may not take money from (political action committees) or lobbyists, but he is taking interest money," said Sheila Krumholtz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance issues.

"He's getting a lot of money from individuals representing lawyers and law firms, security firms, real estate and Hollywood," Krumholtz said. "You can't say that he doesn't take special-interest money."
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I think he's true to his word. By the expansive definition being presented here, he couldn't accept money from anyone because everyone who participates in the economy (and hence everybody with any money) is either an owner, an employee or a relative or dependant of an owner or employee of a special interest. Lobbyists are registered lobbyists, and political action committees are political action committees.
 
kallsop said:
Obama takes donations from persons in groups he opposes

"People in the oil and gas industries have given $222,309 to Obama. He received $528,765 from the pharmaceutical and health industry, making him the largest recipient of the sector's largesse."
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Obama is opposed to people in the health, pharmaceutical, oil and gas industries?

Perhaps someone should tell them, 'cos then I guess they'd stop giving him all that money.

Oh, wait ... it's another kallsop post.
 
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