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Do you approve of these tactics?

09 Mar

Well, it looks like the Obama campaign is pulling out all the stops…and they’ll most likely get away with it.

Illegal get-out-the-vote drives are being held in swing state mosques, Central Ohioans Against Terrorism is reporting:

The group, Muslim Americans for Obama, has announced a series of “get out the vote” events at mosques in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Ohio this week during Ramadan celebrations. As can be seen in the announcement reprinted below, the organization admits these are “get out the vote” events masquerading as “voter registration”:

Muslim Americans for Obama will be working to get out the vote for Sen. Obama, and they need help registering voters! Volunteers need not be Muslim, though appropriate attire is advised (no sleeveless tops; long pants and ankle-length skirts recommended).These get out the vote events, of course, flagrantly violate the tax exempt status of these participating mosques, including our own local Noor Islamic Cultural Center, which are strictly prohibited from supporting or endorsing any kind of partisan political activity — even when they claim it is only “voter registration”. In fact, it was these kinds of activities that eventually sunk the Christian Coalition’s tax exempt status with the IRS.

Voter registration drives at religious institutions are only legal if the organization is non-partisan.

“Muslims for Obama”, the sponsor of these events, is unquestionably a partisan organization, and thus, any participation by these mosques is illegal and violates their tax exempt status. Additionally, since the Muslims for Obama announcement says that these voter registration drives are intended to “get out the vote for Sen. Obama”, they are considered partisan under the law and illegal on that basis as well – in addition to the fact that these events are sponsored by a partisan organization.

Is anybody going to do anything about this?

Who are the attorney generals in the states involved?

Nancy H. Rogers, D, Ohio.

Mike Cox, R. Michigan

Andrew Cuomo, D. New York

Tom Corbitt, R. Pennsylvania

Ann Milgram, D. New Jersey

Bob McDonnell, R. Virginia

Via: Gateway Pundit, who also reports:

More… Ohio Obama supporters are dragging homeless people off the streets in to vote.

and:

It figures… The Iraqi Parliament just banned using mosques during election times:

…The law includes a provision that allocates 25 percent of the seats to women and a prohibition on the use of mosques, pictures of clerical leaders and government institutions during the campaign season.But, they don’t have Barack Obama on the ballot.

Andrew McCarthy reports on Obama’s “funny money”:

My pal Diana West points me to Ken Timmerman’s must-read Newsmax column — which naturally is getting no coverage in the MSM — about Sen. Obama’s eye-popping fundraising operation. Bottom line: the would-be President of the World is raising goo-gobs of money from foreigners outside the United States (a violation of federal law), and matching goo-gobs of money inside the United States from phantoms who are blowing out the individual contribution limits by, among other devices, making up identies and breaking up contributions in amounts less than $200, for which reporting requirements are less rigorous.

According to Ken, the Obama campaign has raised nearly half a billion
dollars ($429.6M) but refuses to provide the names of most of the
donors. Election law requires the campaign to track this information
but not for it to disclose the names of those who donate less than
$200, which is most Obama donors. (Sen. McCain discloses the names of all donors.) The Obama campaign has raised millions upon millions of dollars from outside the United States. Only Americans living overseas may lawfully contribute, but because the Obama vetting machinery is negligent (or worse), the probability is that enormous sums are coming from foreigners. The campaign knows the FEC is a lethargic agency and won’t have a full accounting until perhaps years after the election.

This typifies the domestic fundraising issue:

In
a letter dated June 25, 2008, the FEC asked the Obama campaign to
verify a series of $25 donations from a contributor identified as
“Will, Good” from Austin, Texas. Mr. Good Will listed his employer as
“Loving” and his profession as “You.”

A Newsmax analysis of the
1.4 million individual contributions in the latest master file for the
Obama campaign discovered 1,000 separate entries for Mr. Good Will,
most of them for $25. In total, Mr. Good Will gave $17,375.

Following
this and subsequent FEC requests, campaign records show that 330
contributions from Mr. Good Will were credited back to a credit card.
But the most recent report, filed on Sept. 20, showed a net cumulative
balance of $8,950 — still well over the $4,600 limit.

Blah. Go read the entire thing if your heart can tak

 

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  1. justgoodfolk

    March 9, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    Yes, I do. The Republicans have been doing similar things for decades. It’s not illegal

     
  2. greenman

    March 9, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    I believe Obama has stepped over the line. I smell a lawsuit coming.