While the MSM, DNC & left wingers are hysterical with glee
over the misperception of corruption run amok in the GOP,
Dems that are actually committing real crimes get ZERO
MSM coverage.
Via Betsy's Page:
And the Democrats might want to rethink having Nancy Pelosi being their point person on going after DeLay since she has her own ethics problems with the campaign finance laws.
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IRONICALLY, DELAY'S DEMOCRATIC counterpart in the House, Nancy Pelosi, has been involved in wholesale and indisputable election law violations, but has been absent from the headlines. Pelosi is a champion of what is called "campaign finance reform." The clearest and most fundamental tenet of current election law is the limitation of contributions. Yet, Pelosi's committees have engaged in a massive circumvention of the limitation, even as Pelosi was a key player in passing additional "reform" measures such as McCain-Feingold.
Earlier this year, the Federal Election Commission fined two so-called leadership PACs associated with Pelosi in response to a Complaint by the National Legal and Policy Center. The purpose of leadership PACs is to make contributions to the campaigns of other Congressional candidates. House and Senate Leaders are allowed one leadership PAC in addition to their own campaign committee.
Pelosi set up two. Her second PAC made $5,000 contributions to thirty-six campaigns that had already received the $5,000 maximum from the first. The treasurer of both PACs candidly admitted that the "main reason" for setting up the second PAC was to "give twice as much (sic) hard dollars."
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Sounds like a conspiracy to break the campaign finance laws, doesn't it?
I think one thing we can all agree on is that these laws are way too complicated and that everyone has found a way around them. I'd like to scrap all of them and just require every politician, PAC, or outsider group to post online immediately who donated how much to their campaigns. If the goal is to keep money out of politics, McCain-Feingold is a "miserable failure."
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