current campaign?
August 18, 2009
Why did McCain criticize the Swift Boat group in 2004, but has taken $70,000 in donations from them during his
current campaign?
August 12, 2009
Do you think people who oppose expansion of airports are fundamentally selfish?
Yes, airports are difficult to live near. Yes, they’re noisy, and they are responsible for air pollution.
But they are also a necessity in this world. The movement of people and cargo across the country (and the world) is a fundamental part of our economy.
The same people who raise holy hell every time the FAA or municipal airport authorities have the gall to propose a new runway (or taxiway) which might reduce air traffic congestion and improve the safety of millions of air passengers, are the same type of people who want electricity, but don’t want to see power lines in their backyard. They’re the type of people who want their trash picked up from the curb in front of their house, but don’t want to hear the sound of a dump truck plowing down their street. They want the shuttle van to pick them up on time to take them to the grocery store, but then they scream bloody murder when a school bus drops off little tykes in their neighborhood.
Without air travel, where would this country be? Are we supposed to get rid of all airports and travel around this country by train or car only? How are we supposed to get to places like Europe or Hawaii? By boat? It’ll take two weeks. You’d have to take an entire month off work or school just for the travel portion of your vacation.
Oh, and by the way, airports also generate tens of thousands of jobs for the local economy.
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How about the Soros 527’s fined $775 k for illegal campaign donations?
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Soros-linked group hit with huge fine
By: Kenneth P. Vogel
Aug 29, 2007 02:19 PM EST
Updated: August 29, 2007 02:17 PM EST
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The Federal Election Commission has fined one of the last cycle’s biggest liberal political action committees $775,000 for using unregulated soft money to boost John Kerry and other Democratic candidates during the 2004 elections.
America Coming Together (ACT) raised $137 million for its get-out-the-vote effort in 2004, but the FEC found most of that cash came through contributions that violated federal limits.
The group’s big donors included George Soros, Progressive Corp. chairman Peter Lewis and the Service Employees International Union.
The settlement, which the FEC approved unanimously, is the third largest enforcement penalty in the commission’s 33-year history.
ACT, which ceased operations in 2005, was formed in late 2003 and rapidly deployed an enormous organization to do the retail-level grunt work of politics.
It opened more than 90 offices in 17 states from which it mobilized an army of more than 25,000 paid canvassers and volunteers to knock on doors, stuff envelopes and make phone calls urging voters to defeat President Bush and support Democratic or “progressive” candidates including Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate.
The FEC dismissed allegations that that Kerry’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee violated campaign laws by coordinating with ACT or accepting excessive contributions from the group.
ACT was among a new breed of political committee, known as 527 groups, that stretched campaign finance rules on their way to shaping the 2004 elections.
Operatives used the 527s, named for the section of the IRS code under which they were registered, to spend money on politics outside the FEC’s purview.
But the groups have largely faded from the political landscape as the FEC has sought to rein them in. Late last year, commissioners handed down a total of $630,000 in penalties to three top 527s: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, MoveOn.org and the League of Conservation Voters, and there are more complaints pending.
But the heads of two of the non-profit campaign finance reform groups behind many of the complaints, including the one that led to the ACT penalty, say it’s all too little, too late.
“This action comes more than three years after our FEC complaints were filed and nearly three years after the 2004 presidential election was held,” read a statement from Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, and Gerry Hebert, executive director of the Campaign Legal Center.
Plus, they argued, the fine “represents only a tiny fraction” of the amount ACT spent illegally on the 2004 elections.
Wertheimer also is involved in a lawsuit to compel the FEC to pass a set of comprehensive rules regulating 527s, without which he said the groups are likely to reemerge in the 2008 campaign.
Elli.
You are wrong on all counts. The swft boats were willing to debate and Kerry who by the way served him self in Nam would not as he is the lier.
Ask why if it were not true have they not been sued. Because if they are sued the swift boats will win and you know this also.
One more thing you wish to shut others up and but not your own lies.
Great for the Fed. Elec. Comm. Also Hillary is next with the S.F. case.
August 6, 2009
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