So Obama WAS Accepting Illegal Campaign Contributions After All
That’s interesting. A post on Organizing For America/My Barack Obama from July 08, 2008 says all that stuff about illegal contributions was just another smear…
SMEAR EMAIL
“A June 29th column from Maureen Dowd writes “The internet service providers (ISP) they were able to trace were from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other Middle Eastern countries. One of the banks used for fund transfers was also located in Saudi Arabia. Another concentrated group of donations was traced to a Chinese ISP with a similar pattern of limited credit card charges.”
FACT
“Donors to the Obama campaign are required to certify that they are U.S. citizens, and the campaign would not accept donations from foreign citizens.”
Yet today, the Politico is reporting “President Obama Refunds Cash to Kenyan Aunt, Convicted Murderer, Lobbyists”
“More than eight months after President Barack Obama won the White House, the remnants of his campaign organization is struggling to deal with some unfinished business: returning about $669,000 in tainted or illegal campaign contributions to a motley assortment of donors, among them a convicted murderer, Washington lobbyists and a number of foreign nationals, including his own aunt.”
“But the 11 Chicago-based staff members still on the campaign’s payroll are finding it was a lot easier to rake in a record-shattering $750 million than to identify and return donations that ran afoul of federal election laws or Obama’s own strict fundraising standards.”
What standards?
