If You Can’t Win It, Steal It
The Bear on Oct 09 2008 at 8:24 am | Filed under: Election 08’
Muslim Americans for Obama running illegal get out the vote drives at swingstate mosques this week —
For those who has asked about lawful voter registration drives at religious institutions, that is only legal IF the organization is non-partisan. “Muslim Americans 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 Muslim Americans for Obama announcement says that these voter registration drives are intended to “get out the vote for Sen. Obama”, they are considered partisan (i.e. intended to benefit a specific candidate) under the law and illegal on that basis as well - in addition to the fact that these events are sponsored by a partisan organization.
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”:
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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.
Here’s the entire announcement posted on Sunday at the Asian-Americans for Obama 08 website (no doubt it will disappear from there shortly), as well as the Muslim Americans for Obama website:
Obama’s Friend, America’s Enemy
Have you ever been a friend or business associate of a terrorist? Not someone who, to your shock and horror, turned out secretly to have bombed government buildings. No, the question is whether you’ve ever befriended an unreconstructed radical whose past was well known to you when you entered his orbit and walked through doors he opened for you. Have you been chummy with an unapologetic terrorist who, years after you’d known and worked closely with him, was still telling the New York Times he regretted only failing to carry out more attacks — and that America still “makes me want to puke”?
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Needless to say, none of this is justified. If Obama has a good explanation for his ties to Ayers, he ought to give it. In the meantime, raising questions about that relationship is entirely legitimate.
Hunting Mr. Good Will
WHO is “Will, Good”?
Mr. Good Will - who lists his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You” - has contributed 1,000 times to the Barack Obama campaign.
All the contributions have been in amounts of $25 or less. But they add up to $17,375 - far more than the legal limit of $4,600. That’s $2,300 each for the primary and general election campaigns.
Kenneth Timmerman, a reporter for NewsMax, a conservative Web site, discovered Mr. Good Will when he reviewed 1.4 million individual contributions in the latest Federal Elections Commission master file for the Obama campaign.
Mr. Good Will said he was from Austin, Texas. When I called directory assistance, they could find no listing for him.
Read more from ToledoBlade.com
RNC to File FEC Report Against Obama by Walter Alarkon
The Republican National Committee accused Barack Obama’s presidential campaign of flouting campaign finance laws and called for an audit of the Democrat’s fundraising operation. The Republican National Committee will file a formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission on Monday that accuses Sen. Obama’s campaign of taking contributions from individuals who are foreigners and who have given more during the primary than the $2,300-per-person limit. The complaint comes after Newsweek reported Saturday that federal auditors flagged donations to Obama from individuals named “Good Will” and “Doodad Pro” that added up to amounts greater than the $2,300 limit. The story also noted that Obama had to return $33,000 from two Palestinian brothers living in the Gaza Strip earlier this year.
Read more from The New Media Journal
Still missing from Obama’s declarations
1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia ?College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — ‘not ?available’
4. Harvard College records — Not released
5. ?Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — ?Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — ‘not ?available’
8. Law practice client list — Not released
9. ?Certified Copy of original Birth certificate — Not released
10. ?Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth — Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published — None
12. University of ?Chicago scholarly articles — None
13. Record of baptism– Not ?released or ‘not available’
14. Illinois State Senate records–’not ?available’
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