Thursday, October 30, 2008

Obama's strange contributors

Take this:
"A survey of the Obama donor base returns 8,794 donations from individuals who gave their state as “NA.” They included donors from Bangalore, India; London; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Lagos, Nigeria; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia."
Or this:
"Typical is Victor A. of Lagos, Nigeria, who gave $500 to the campaign in May. In the FEC database, his address is listed as Ikoyi, NA. But a closer look at the actual itemized receipts filed by the campaign shows that he declared his address as 9e Awori Street Dolphin Estate, Lagos, Nigeria.

"Another 2,372 donors gave their state of residence as 'ZZ,' with cities including Moscow, Barcelona, Beirut, London, Lausanne, Singapore, Hagatna, Gunma-Ken, Buelach, Shanghai, Geneva, Prague, Aichi-Gun, Kiev, Hong Kong, and others.

"Take the case of Jo Jacquet, who gave $23,065 to Obama in 23 separate contributions last month....

"'Jo Jacquet' made all of her contributions on two days, alternating between $5 and $2,300 charges to a credit card.

"On all of the donations, she gave her employer as 'DFDFGDFG,' and her profession as 'DFGDFGDFGHFGH.'"
Bizarre. And none of this happend to catch the eye, supposedly, of the Obama campaign finance team? See Kenneth R. Timmerman, "Ex-CIA Expert: Obama Took Millions in Illegal Foreign Donations" (Newsmax.com, October 29, 2008).

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