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Fleshdancer

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Fri Aug-22-03 01:36 AM
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Odd campaign finance question:

What does it mean if you can't find a company that a Presidential campaign gave money to for "consultant, expense-fundraising"? If you check the white pages, yellow pages, BBB, google, and corporate records and nothing comes up, should you check somewhere else or should you assume the company doesn't exist?

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Fri Aug-22-03 01:43 AM
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1. www.infospace.com n/t

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Fleshdancer

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Fri Aug-22-03 02:12 AM
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2. Nothing came up there either.

I'm looking for a few companies that the bush campaign gave small amounts of money to for "consultant expense-fundraising" but so far, the search hasn't been very successful.

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Fri Aug-22-03 02:51 AM
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3. If it's a partnership, some states don't require you to register

Two people can call themselves whatever they want, trade under a name, and bring the money in (and declare it on their 1040). But most states require you to register the name of your partnership. All states require corporations to be registered.

If there's any profession where you probably wouldn't care about incorporating (or forming a limited liability partnership) it would be political consulting. When would a political consultant ever be sued for negligence?

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Fleshdancer

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Fri Aug-22-03 03:14 AM
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4. well that explains it

thanks for the information.

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Fri Aug-22-03 03:25 AM
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5. Another way to look at this is, if they were too small to incorporate

or register their partnership (and you can check state records for both those things) then what the hell were they doing. If an unicorporated person or unregistered partnership got a LOT of money, that would be odd.

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Fleshdancer

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Fri Aug-22-03 03:43 AM
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6. there are a lot of unincorporated people

receiving money from the bush campaign from what I can tell, but they're all in small amounts...$1,000 here $500 there, etc. If the FEC has strict guidelines on expenditures (which I can't even tell if they do or not) then for a campaign with as much money as bush's, I imagine the smaller amounts go unnoticed at times.

It makes me what to research some of these people and see for myself what they do for a living.

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