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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy was Rmoney in Israel fundraising? Doesn't something smell funny about this?
ETA: Because I can't spell "Israel"
DCBob
(24,689 posts)I hope the FEC inverstigates those donations. I suspect there might some some foreign money mixed in there which is illegal of course.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Gathering donations from ExPats.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Given the SCOTUS ruling on Citizens United, I am really concerned about "corporations" giving to candidates. I see that same #$%^ing thing happening here.
Imagine, for example, what the response would be if President Obama went to France to a fund raiser.
Yeah, we know exactly what the response would be. Legal or not, it would stink to high heaven.
former9thward
(32,082 posts)The Obama campaign held two in China. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/06/10/obama_campaign_plans_fundraise.html
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)CU opened the door for unlimited (and undisclosed) foreign contributions on top of everything else. That money is supposed to be "no communication" with the campaign, but if Willard has people who can figure out how to keep him in a max 13.8% tax bracket, surely they are smart enough to launder foreign cash as well.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Just a little 'investment' perhaps, so that Romney will help out with Iran? If Netanyahu wasn't in charge I might think otherwise.
AndyTiedye
(23,500 posts)Citizens United makes it OK.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)i was reading about this in Wikipedia this morning. i`m still confused about the relationship between these to religions
BlueinOhio
(238 posts)I heard on NPR about the mormons posthumously baptizing jews who had died. The mormons were told to quit.
cali
(114,904 posts)not currently. Jews form one of the most reliably democratic voting blocs of any group. Jews have historically worked for liberal causes in this country- think the Civil Rights Movement. Mormons are a reliably pro-republican voting bloc and didn't even allow blacks full participation in the Church until 1978.
What are you saying they have in common?
badtoworse
(5,957 posts)He probably believes that Obama's policies regarding Isreal have alienated a substantial number of Jewish voters who normally vote Democratic. By taking a strong stand in support of Isreal, he is trying to pick up these votes.
As a political matter, the strategy is not without merit. IMO, Obama will not do as well with Jewish voters this time compared with 2008.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)He only does things that are legal, my friend, like the amount of taxes he claims he pays. Like firing all the illegals doing his lawns because he's "running for Office for Christ's sake!"