FEC Investigating McCain Campaign For “Excessive Contributions”

11:34 pm EST October 6th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Imagine that, dear.

The FEC sent a letter to Sen. John McCain’s campaign treasurer Sept. 30 demanding the candidate turn over more information about ‘contributions that appear to exceed the limits.’

The letter is accompanied by a nine-page list showing scores of overages from McCain’s August campaign finance report, including nearly $13,000 from Texas rancher Ray R. Barrett Jr.; $9,200 from an Iraqi security consultant, H. Carter Andress; and $5,000 from Joseph F. Davolio, an executive at a major national liquor, beer and wine distributor.

‘Please inform the Commission of your corrective action immediately in writing and provide photocopies of any refund checks and/or letters reattributing or redesignating the contributions in question,’ the letter from the FEC’s senior campaign finance analyst, Leah S. Palmer, says. ‘The acceptance of excessive contributions is a serious problem.’

Funny how we haven’t heard about this until now.

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6 Responses to “FEC Investigating McCain Campaign For “Excessive Contributions””

  1. Jaim says:
    October 6, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    Republican morality 101: Rules aren’t for the rich, just the little guys.

  2. Dennis says:
    October 7, 2008 at 5:45 am

    Yeesh.

    This sounds like one of the squeals from the rest of the crowd on The View yesterday when Elizabeth Hasselbeck set the record straight on William Ayers.

    “Oh no you don’t!”

  3. matt621 says:
    October 7, 2008 at 8:39 am

    Is he getting to much cash from Doodad Pro and Good Will?

    Or am I getting my candidates confused?

  4. Quaker in a Basement says:
    October 7, 2008 at 10:58 am

    Think it through, Matt.

    You’re a candidate for national office. You’re trying to hide illegal campaign contributions. Do you:
    A) register the contributions under various, normal-sounding names?
    B) register the contributions under obviously made-up names?

    While you conservatives may flatter yourselves that you’re more logical than emotion-driven liberals, you can’t possibly imagine that anyone connected with the Obama campaign was attempting to hide anything behind the Good Will moniker, can you?

  5. Sean D. Martin says:
    October 7, 2008 at 11:06 am

    matt621: Is he getting to much cash from Doodad Pro and Good Will?

    Or am I getting my candidates confused?

    So you hear about “Doodad Pro” and “Good Will” in an article talking about how the Obama campaign is returning the excess money donated by these and other suspect names. And you still go ahead and ask such stupid questions?

    Quaker: Think it through, Matt

    Well, it would be a first.

  6. The Reality-Based Dave says:
    October 7, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Dennis uses Hasselback to bolster his argument.
    An ant uses a flea to protect itself from the boot squash.
    An 8yr old uses a 9yr old to refute schoolyard taunts from a teen.
    Elmer Fudd uses Daffy Duck trying to outsmart Bugs Bunny.