#2
Ditto DV - The U.S. Citizens Association, a non-profit member organization based in Akron, Ohio called for the immediate release of the Federal Election Commission’s findings into the questionable fundraising practices conducted by the Obama 2008 Presidential campaign.
The first red flag regarding Obama’s 2008 fundraising came when the Washington Post reported that the “Obama campaign was allowing donors to use largely untraceable pre-paid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity.”
The problem with these pre-paid cards is that is makes it impossible to determine if foreign nationals are contributing to a campaign, or if single donors are giving multiple small donations, thus exceeding the contribution limits, or even if an outside group is purchasing these cards for individual donors to evade the reporting requirements.
It is also known that the Obama campaign received 47% of its donations from donors giving less than the$200 limit that would require automatic reporting. In comparison, John McCain’s 2008 Presidential campaign received 26% of his donations from less than $200 donors
But others came from places as far afield as Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Beijing, Fallujah,Florence, Italy, and a wide selection of towns and cities in France. The Washington Post reported in 2008 that “the Obama Campaign allowed donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity…”
#5
What you have here is a map of corruption that a NGO disapproves of. The corruption that they're OK with doesn't show up.
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#6
Sort of relative isn't it? A 100 dollars in the right place in a lot of countries buys more influence than 10,000 or more in 'campaign contributions' in another. So it's really a map of where to find cheap pols and bureaucrats to buy.
#1
Grandma Hilly is suffering from dementia and a Napoleonic Complex; give it up granny and go play with your grandchild while you still have time left.
#6
It doesn't matter if they weren't there, because she wasn't going to say anything worth hearing.
Hil is the Lib 'establishment' candidate; colleges are about as Lib Establishment as you can get. You can pay to show support, or pay them to go away, it works out the same.
Aren't you glad the Feds broke the Mafia?
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#7
For $300K a speech, I don't think Madame Rodham really cared who showed up.
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