Botox Caught
From National Legal and Policy Center:Nancy "Botox" Pelosi on Campaign Finance Reform:
Pelosi has been an outspoken advocate of campaign finance reform and Shays-Meehan, the companion bill to the McCain-Feingold legislation, that became law. In January 2002, she asserted, “One threat to our Constitution, indeed to our participatory democracy, is the role of the special interest money in the political process today.”
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Pelosi complained of “extremists in the Republican Party who have repeatedly tried to undermine campaign finance reform” and of “sneaky tactics employed by the Republicans” to weaken Shays-Meehan.
The Story
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has fined two leadership PACs associated with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in response to a Complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) on October 25, 2002. The FEC also has fined three campaigns that failed to return excessive contributions from Pelosi’s PACs within 60 days, as required by law.
Under conciliation agreements reached with the FEC, Pelosi’s two committees — PAC to the Future and Team Majority — will pay $21,000. Julie Thomas for Congress Campaign Committee (D–IA) and Van Hollen for Congress (D–MD) will each pay $2,500, and Joe Turnham for Congress (D–AL) will pay $2,000. The three campaigns also agreed to disgorge $5,000 each to the U.S. Treasury.
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In its Complaint, NLPC alleged that Pelosi violated federal election law by operating two “leadership” political action committees (PACs) in order to circumvent contribution limits. Members of the Democrat and Republican leaderships in the House and Senate may legally have one so-called leadership PAC in addition to their own campaign committee. The purpose of leadership PACs is to make contributions to the campaigns of other Congressional candidates.
NLPC’s Complaint cited a second circumvention of the law, that of the limits on amounts donors may give to PACs. Team Majority, the newer PAC, reported sixteen contributions of $5,000 each from donors who also gave the maximum to Pelosi’s other PAC. Five of the donors gave to both PACs on the same day.
NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm reacted by stating, “We are delighted that the FEC has acted favorably on our Complaint. No member of Congress has ever set up a second leadership PAC to evade contribution limits. Pelosi has been caught violating the clearest and most basic law of all, the limits on contributions. Talk about hypocrisy.”
Within twenty-four hours of NLPC’s Complaint, Pelosi announced she would shut down Team Majority and retrieve contributions already made to candidates. The PAC made thirty-six contributions to candidates in the amount of $5,000, the legal limit. Her surviving PAC, which is called PAC to the Future, distributed $1.7 million to candidates in the 2001-2002 election cycle.
Matt's Chat
Let me see if I remember this accurately: "We're going to keep pounding, let me tell you. We're just beginning to fight here. These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen. It's scary." -- John Kerry, March 2004Mark's Remarks
I just love this. Nancy, like most liberals, talks a good game, but cannot put up. They talk about high ideals and wanting to be fair, but then they come up with every dirty trick in the book to circumvent the laws. Look at Hillary Clinton's cattle deals, her land deals, and her manipulation of the system. Look at how John Kerry manipulates the Heinz Foundation through his wife to bankroll friendly 527s.
Have you ever noticed the hypocrisy of the left, of those who call themselves liberal? They talk about wanting to dialogue and have a good level of discourse, yet every time you have a disagreement with them, YOU ARE EVIL! Have you ever noticed that they consistently will talk about helping the poor, about the poor being shafted, but THEY DO NOTHING OR DONATE NOTHING to help the poor (ala John Kerry)? Have you noticed that people who talk about Benedict Arnold CEOs are married to them?
Have you noticed that the same people who are SO OUTRAGED by the prison photos are THE SAME PEOPLE who funded similar pictures taken by Robert Maplethorpe? Have you ever noticed Ted Kennedy wants to hold everyone responsible but himself? Have you ever noticed that John Kerry does the same thing? These people have no core. They are unfit for leadership.
