McCain Possibly Breaks Campaign Finance Law, Faces Possible Prison Time

[Patroklos]

One is that the six-member commission lacks a quorum, with four vacancies because of a Senate deadlock over President Bush's nominees for the seats.

Democrats intefereing in the democratic process.

Why do you hate democracy Oerdin?

[MJW]

Maybe Huckabee is running hoping McCain will forfiet.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Geronimo

Rather, it would seem that non republicans breaking the law doesn't matter to you given how little we see of you complaining about it.

Bah, up yours. I condemn law breaking where ever it occurs.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Patroklos


Democrats intefereing in the democratic process.

Why do you hate democracy Oerdin?

I agree that the vacancies should be filled but not with party hacks. All Bush has to do is nominate non-extremists or better yet non-partisans but so far he refuses to do that.

[PLATO]

Originally posted by Ramo


b.) He used staying in the race if he were losing and taking public money (effectively defrauding the taxpayer) as collateral for a loan he took out. Which may or may not legally count as taking advantage of the public system.

If that is actually true, then he legally cannot withdraw.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Bah, up yours. I condemn law breaking where ever it occurs.

And yet, I've never seen you post an article about donkey lawbreaking.

ACK!

[Dinner]

It is true and even more ironic is that McCain seems to be guilty of breaking the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Law.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/02/howard-dean-to.html

"John McCain cannot unilaterally withdraw from his spending limit," said Dean on a conference call with reporters. "He cannot be let out of the matching funds program if he's already used the promise of matching funds for loans or collateral for private loans."

McCain took the money and opted in for public financing using the money to pay for most of his early campaign. Then his campaign took off and suddenly McCain was flushed with cash. Now he wants out of the system he helped create but he legally cannot because the President and Congress are at odds over FEC appointments such that there isn't enough sitting members for the committee to legally convene.

McCain has decided to simply break the Campaign Finance law and spend in excess of the limits. That's a crime.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Tuberski


And yet, I've never seen you post an article about donkey lawbreaking.

ACK!

I don't normally post articles about rapists, street thugs, or numerous other types of criminals either but I still condemn them.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Oerdin


I don't normally post articles about rapists, street thugs, or numerous other types of criminals either but I still condemn them.

So you admit it, all Dems are criminals?

Unless they are GOP, I don't really care, but it gets annoying seeing you bash one party over and over and over.

I hope Obama wins, just to shut you up about this for a while.

ACK!

[Dinner]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Oerdin, these absurdly misleading thread titles are getting old.

Snoopy, I'm tired of you constantly lying about my thread titles. The title is perfectly clear and correct. McCain has broken his own campaign finance law and if the law is enforced then McCain must stand trial and go to prison after he is convicted.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It is true

Because Howard Dean says so?! The McCain campaign is denying it, and you'd think since they took out the policy, they'd know better than others.

McCain has broken his own campaign finance law

What exactly has he broken right now? And when has ANY candidate who was found in violation of a campaign finance law been sent to jail (btw, President Clinton, Senator Dole, President Bush, Vice President Gore have all been found in violation and forced to pay a fine).

You are incredibly full of ****.

[Dinner]

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, A.K.A. the McCain Feingold Campaign finance law, was passed in 2002 as the name implies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act

The first version was passed in 1995 but it was amended in 2002. Why is that important, Imran? Because your examples are from before 2002.

[Dinner]

If Obama broke the law to continue accepting money we'd never hear the end of it from the GOP. Every single debate McCain's first point would be "My opponent is currently in violation of election law."

Let's hope we hear the same from the Obama camp. And make sure to make it "the election law he authored."

[snoopy369]

Oerdin, you don't even read your **** articles, do you?

He HAS NOT BROKEN THE LAW YET. It CLEARLY states that multiple times in your article.

The article says that he has asked to withdraw from public funding - which he is LEGALLY ENTITLED to request - and has gone through the legal channels to do so. He hasn't been APPROVED of that withdrawl, and probably won't since there aren't enough members of the committee to approve it. He may have a hard time between now and the end of the primary season (though to be honest he could pretty much stop campaigning now and still win...) but he HAS NOT EXCEEDED LIMITS.

Until he does, stop posting lying partisan BS, and stop pretending to be nonpartisan.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, A.K.A. the McCain Feingold Campaign finance law, was passed in 2002 as the name implies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act

The first version was passed in 1995 but it was amended in 2002. Why is that important, Imran? Because your examples are from before 2002.

How did he violate said law?