Disclosure: I worked for the Lamont campaign doing web design and production and some writing for the official blog (from 9/5/06 to 11/07/06).

Monday, October 23, 2006

 

FEC Complaint Officially Filed

Read it - and co-sign it - here.

More from the AP:

"This massive slush fund is an affront to democracy and Connecticut," Lamont campaign manager Tom Swan said in a press release Monday. "These questions are critical for the people of Connecticut to know, and that is why these laws exist and why we're taking legal action. Only an 18-year career politician could dump almost $400,000 in cash into an election and try to call it petty cash."

The Lieberman camp denied any wrongdoing.

Lieberman spokeswoman Tammy Sun said Sunday, when the allegations first surfaced, that the cash was paid to field coordinators who then distributed money to workers who were canvassing. The payments to workers, many of them students, ranged from $50 to $100 per day, Sun added.

Comments:
You've been on top of this the whole time. Thank you.

I've got a post at MLN where I'm asking about the larger problems in the GOTV effort, beyond the issue of a petty cash journal.
 
I gotta believe that the CT Sec of State would have checked the validity of the signature-getters. From what I know her rep is quite good.
 
Hmmm. Joe paid 3780 volunteers?

Not friggin likely, wot?
 
Thank you Joan. Your post was informative.
 
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