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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFeds Blast Ted Cruz’s Shady Donations
Feds Blast Ted Cruzs Shady Donationsby Betsy Woodruff at the Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/04/ted-cruz-s-sloppy-books.html
"SNIP...............
The Federal Election Commission sent the Texas senator-turned-presidential candidate three separate letters noting his teams hiccups with campaign finance laws. One noted that the senators team has accepted contributions that appear to go above the legal limit.
None of the problems the commission identified are uniquely scandalous or game-changing, but its a-typical for a presidential candidates team to get three notices from them in one day.
Their political machine has got some sand in the gears, said one campaign lawyer, who spoke anonymously. Theyve got a ways to go to establish a good compliance system.
The FECs letter to Cruzs campaign suggests that his team doesnt have effective compliance mechanisms in place, the lawyer added.
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Feds Blast Ted Cruz’s Shady Donations (Original Post)
applegrove
Jun 2015
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applegrove
(118,965 posts)1. First Jeb skirting the election laws by not announcing even though he is running and now Cruze. I'm
sure he knows exactly what he is doing. The GOP love to be in shady areas.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)2. Laws? We don't need no stinkin' laws.
They are all just thumbing their noses at these laws and why not? Rarely are they enforced.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)3. "Contributions that *appear* to go above the legal limit"
What's the limit, $2,700 for an individual? How does a contribution only "appear" to go above the limit? If the amount in the little box is more than $2,700, it's over.
Considering the fly-specking going on with contributions to the Clinton Foundation (which is not a campaign or political action committee), you'd think there'd be at the very least some idle curiosity about Sen. Cruz's repeated troubles with campaign contributions.