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    Remember this imbroglio?

    Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations — one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign. The major sticking point for the FEC appeared to be a series of missing notices for nearly 1,300 contributions totaling more than $1.8 million — an issue that lawyers familiar with the commission’s work say the FEC takes seriously. The notices must be filed on contributions of $1,000 or more that are received within the 20-day window of Election Day.

    More than half of those contributions were transferred from the Obama Victory Fund,a joint committee between the campaign and the DEMOCRAT National Committee.

    The fine resulting from the settlement agreement was paid, with $230,000 coming from the Obama campaign’s coffers and the remainder from the DNC.

    The document outlined other violations, such as erroneous contribution dates on some campaign reports. The Obama campaign was also late returning some contributions that exceeded the legal limit.



    https://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/obama-2008-campaign-fined-375000-085784

    But that was different...

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    use Occam's razor.
    We already knew he was a hound dog
    So, he doesn't pay her off to save his family right after the incident. He waits until the end of his campaign to do so.

    Surely, Shirley, even you can't be that stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post
    What's amusing about leftist idiots like Jarod is that they support hypocrites and liars, then whine when they think someone else is one when they lose elections. They are poor losers and even worse winners.
    I have lots of amusing details about Comrade Brad. I wish I could share them with you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    Occam's razor would conclude that if a man has an affair with two women in 2006 and pays them off in the next few years, it may be about family.

    When the women are paid off in 2016 Occam's razor would say it is about the election.
    Checkmate!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Remember this imbroglio?

    Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations — one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign. The major sticking point for the FEC appeared to be a series of missing notices for nearly 1,300 contributions totaling more than $1.8 million — an issue that lawyers familiar with the commission’s work say the FEC takes seriously. The notices must be filed on contributions of $1,000 or more that are received within the 20-day window of Election Day.

    More than half of those contributions were transferred from the Obama Victory Fund,a joint committee between the campaign and the DEMOCRAT National Committee.

    The fine resulting from the settlement agreement was paid, with $230,000 coming from the Obama campaign’s coffers and the remainder from the DNC.

    The document outlined other violations, such as erroneous contribution dates on some campaign reports. The Obama campaign was also late returning some contributions that exceeded the legal limit.



    https://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/obama-2008-campaign-fined-375000-085784

    But that was different...
    oh wow, that's a real blockbuster

    thanks for the heads up!

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    Quote Originally Posted by DEMOCRAT domer76 View Post
    So, he doesn't pay her off to save his family right after the incident. He waits until the end of his campaign to do so.

    She didn't threaten to go public until he ran for office, did she, DEMOCRAT?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    She didn't threaten to go public until he ran for office, did she, DEMOCRAT?
    do you have Legionaire's disease perchance?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Using that logic a candidate who buys a new suit so they'll look better on TV is guilty of election fraud.

    Loser.

    ^Ruh roh, folks.

    New winner of the "Stupid Post of the Day".

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    Quote Originally Posted by reagansghost View Post
    do you have Legionaire's disease perchance?
    Answer the question if you can.

    I'll understand if you can't, of course.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Remember this imbroglio?

    Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations — one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign. The major sticking point for the FEC appeared to be a series of missing notices for nearly 1,300 contributions totaling more than $1.8 million — an issue that lawyers familiar with the commission’s work say the FEC takes seriously. The notices must be filed on contributions of $1,000 or more that are received within the 20-day window of Election Day.

    More than half of those contributions were transferred from the Obama Victory Fund,a joint committee between the campaign and the DEMOCRAT National Committee.

    The fine resulting from the settlement agreement was paid, with $230,000 coming from the Obama campaign’s coffers and the remainder from the DNC.

    The document outlined other violations, such as erroneous contribution dates on some campaign reports. The Obama campaign was also late returning some contributions that exceeded the legal limit.



    https://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/obama-2008-campaign-fined-375000-085784

    But that was different...
    ^Folks, this is classic desperation.

    Flounder, shitstain, flounder.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    She didn't threaten to go public until he ran for office, did she, DEMOCRAT?
    Ruh roh, people.

    ^Stupid Post of the Day followed up by a close second place! Same idiot, no less!

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    Remember when a DEMOCRAT running for president paid a woman $700 K hush money?

    The jury returned a not guilty verdict on the key charge in the federal campaign corruption trial against Mr. Edwards – that the former Democratic presidential candidate allegedly helped to illegally funnel over $700,000 in hush money from heiress Rachel “Bunny” Mellon. The jury deadlocked on the five other counts against him, and Judge Catherine Eagles declared a mistrial.

    The verdict came on the ninth day of deliberations at the federal courthouse in Greensboro, N.C., as a diverse jury attempted to weigh the prosecution’s contention that Edwards illegally used campaign donations to hide a mistress, Rielle Hunter, and a love child from voters and his ailing wife. The long deliberations, with the jury asking the judge for dozens of exhibits, suggested that jurors were struggling with complex and often vague campaign laws that require prosecutors to prove “intent” to break election law.


    https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0531/Is-John-Edwards-verdict-the-last-straw-for-campaign-finance

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    Quote Originally Posted by DEMOCRAT domer76 View Post
    Folks, this is classic desperation.
    Answer the question if you can, DEMOCRAT.

    I'll understand if you can't, of course.

    Loser.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post
    Let's assume it was to prevent a negative public opinion; is that illegal? I would also like to know why talking to Russians is suddenly illegal. Why?
    I think the claim is that if money is spent to influence election results it violates campaign finance laws if not reported. I think very few people know enough about campaign finance laws to have an informed opinion about this.

    There is nothing illegal about talking to Russians which makes me wonder why so many of Trump's associates lied about their contacts with them.

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    Remember Citizens United, DEMOCRATS?



    The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which allowed freer flow of campaign funds in the political system – appears to set a high bar for what constitutes illegal behavior in the realm of campaign funding.

    “The fact is, we’re going to see many fewer cases brought of this kind, largely because the Supreme Court has said we want more deregulation in this area, more freedom from government regulations,” legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who has written extensively about Citizens United for the New Yorker magazine, said on CNN.

    At its core, the case is about whether Edwards, once a rising star in Democratic politics, “willfully” took and concealed the money to protect his presidential campaign. Some legal analysts say the government’s unusual decision to bring criminal charges against Edwards even after the formal civil-elections body, the FEC, failed to come to any conclusions about whether the donations were illegal could have chilled American politics.

    One of your own was acquitted after paying $700,000 in hush money during a campaign. Manylegal experts said no prosecution should have been brought in the first place.


    Think hard, DEMOCRATS.


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