In a story dropped on the media late Friday evening, just released Obama administration records reveal potential illegal fundraising activities within the White House.
Media outlets are just now circulating the details of potential illegal fundraising activities by the Obama administration. A March meeting between top Obama campaign officials and wealthy power brokers such as former Governor Jon Corzine and banking executive James Staley as well as nearly 30 other such figures, was hosted by the DNC and took place within the confines of the Obama White House – a clear violation of federalfundraising laws.
At present, the official stance by the Obama administration is that while the meeting was paid for by the DNC, no actual fundraising took place, but rather what the administration is calling “an economic discussion” between the administration and the deep pockets who attended the meeting. Legal experts and certain media outlets though are countering the administration’s description, indicating a line may have been intentionally crossed. In a Politico report Meredith McGehee of the Campaign Legal Center indicated, “I don’t have a problem with the president inviting Wall Street people to the White House to discuss policy, but why does it need to be DNC-sponsored? I think that’s what raises the eyebrows. Even if it’s not a fundraiser, it’s a cultivation.”
If the meeting was not a fundraiser, why then was it also attended by the current financial head of the DNC, Andy Tobias, DNC fundraiser Brad Thompson, as well as Obama’s former White House political director Patrick Gaspard? Certainly the inclusion of those individuals at such a meeting is indicative not of a discussion on economic policy but rather a clear indicator of fundraising efforts by the Obama administration. Recent related reports have indicated the Obama campaign team is already indicating concern over present fundraising levels as enthusiasm for Obama’s re-election appears to have waned considerably in recent months.
Furthering the secretive nature of the March 7th meeting is the fact it was not on President Obama’s schedule for that day. Unscheduled meetings on the economy – or illegal fundraising activities – which sounds more plausible? Indeed…
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