There is yet another story about Barack Obama the mean stream media refuses to investigate. I wrote about this a while ago. I still haven’t heard anything from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN or MSNBC.
According to Newmax, Barack Obama has raised $222.7 million from contributions of $200 or less and his campaign refuses to release the names of those donors. John McCain, on the other hand, has released the names of all of his donors, regardless of the amount donated.
Under campaign finance laws, an individual can donate $2,300 to a candidate for federal office in both the primary and general election, for a total of $4,600. If a donor has topped the limit in the primary, the campaign can “redesignate” the contribution to the general election on its books.
In a letter dated June 25, 2008, the FEC asked the Obama campaign to verify a series of $25 donations from a contributor identified as “Will, Good” from Austin, Texas.
Mr. Good Will listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You.”
A Newsmax analysis of the 1.4 million individual contributions in the latest master file for the Obama campaign discovered 1,000 separate entries for Mr. Good Will, most of them for $25.
In total, Mr. Good Will gave $17,375.
Following this and subsequent FEC requests, campaign records show that 330 contributions from Mr. Good Will were credited back to a credit card. But the most recent report, filed on Sept. 20, showed a net cumulative balance of $8,950 — still well over the $4,600 limit.
There can be no doubt that the Obama campaign noticed these contributions, since Obama’s Sept. 20 report specified that Good Will’s cumulative contributions since the beginning of the campaign were $9,375.
In addition to Mr. Feel Good, there is Mr. Doodad Pro.
Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” just as Good Will had done.
But in some of them, he didn’t even go this far, apparently picking letters at random to fill in the blanks on the credit card donation form. In these cases, he said he was employed by “VCX” and that his profession was “VCVC.”
Following FEC requests, the Obama campaign began refunding money to Doodad Pro in February 2008. In all, about $8,425 was charged back to a credit card. But that still left a net total of $11,165 as of Sept. 20, way over the individual limit of $4,600.
Here again, LaBolt pledged that the contributions would be returned but gave no date.
In February, after just 93 donations, Doodad Pro had already gone over the $2,300 limit for the primary. He was over the $4,600 limit for the general election one month later. Read full article.
You can bet your overvalued house that if John McCain had these questionable donations the media would be all over it.
You are right about the media.
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How much has Obama raised (give or take 10 million)? And, you are concerned about how much (give or take $10,000)? I am pretty certain that tracking these numbers of $25 donations is pretty difficult. You might need to cut a little slack. Just how much influence do you think “Good Will” has purchased for his/her donations? How much impact do you think “Doodad Pro’s” ideas will have on the campaign. The money will be returned. Please find yourself a jucier scandal.
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That’s just two instances. Click “read the full article”. And in case you didn’t know, it’s illegal to accept foreign donations.
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To Brian Smith:
Your post completely misses the point. If we set the rules of the game, everyone needs to follow them. These are just examples the author had pointed out. If these are indicative of efforts to by-pass the law, it is just the tip of the ice berg.
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Never mind those..how about all the money Barack got from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
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Don’t worry Ben, the media will do their best to keep that under wraps, too. If he wins in November they may bring up just to beef up their ratings with a scandal.
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You are aware, aren’t you, that Obama didn’t accept federal matching funds? That’s why the same “rules of the game” (to quote Alex T.) that apply to McCain don’t apply to Obama. As Brian Smith says, the funny money from Good Will and Doodad Pro will be given back. Obama hardly needs it with the grass roots support he’s received. It’s probable that the Good/Doodad money was sent by a Melon Scaife droog in a sabotage scheme. If so, they would naturally send it through a foreign accomplice so as to make the scheme all the deadlier if the money was accepted. But it wasn’t, so the reactionary punks lose again. They’ve been trying this sort of thing ever since they messed up the Watergate break-in.
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