National Journal Makes Illegal Contributions To Campaigns, Obama Accepts McCain Doesn’t
Surprise, surprise.
Someone does think Obama’s fraudulent campaign finance practices are a more important story than Palin’s wardrobe.
To test the campaigns’ practices, this author bought two pre-paid American Express gift cards worth $25 each to donate to the Obama and McCain campaigns online. As required by law, the campaigns’ Web sites asked for, and National Journal provided, the donor’s correct name, location and employment. The cards were purchased with cash at a Washington, D.C., drugstore, and the campaigns’ Web sites were accessed through a public computer at a library in Fairfax County, Virginia.
The Obama campaign’s Web site accepted the $25 donation, but the McCain campaign’s Web site rejected it.
Rebecca Donatelli, president of Campaigns Solutions of Alexandria, Va., which processes donations for John McCain, said her system rejected the donation because American Express could not verify that the donor lived at the address given with the online contribution…
“We could lower our standards and accept more money… but this is John McCain’s campaign, and he wants to root out fraud in fundraising and have everything open and as honest as possible,” said Donatelli.
Something needs to be done about this and quick. If Obama wins the White House it’s not going to matter how much fraudulent cash he took in. He’ll be in, and with impeachment proceedings unlikely to get much traction in a Democrat-controlled Congress nothing short of a coup would pry the fraudulent schmuck out of office.
