Jackson and the DNC busted on campaign finance charges.
Michelle Malkin noticed a story that's only making a small bleep on the radar. From the
AP/USA Today:
The Democratic Party, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and two groups associated with the civil rights activist have agreed to pay a total of $200,000 in civil fines for campaign finance violations in the 2000 elections.
At issue in the Federal Election Commission case was about $450,000 in election spending by Jackson, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and the Citizenship Education Fund using funds from the groups. The two non-profit groups were incorporated, making their money corporate and subject to restrictions under federal campaign finance laws.
According to the FEC, the money was used for a partisan get-out-the-vote effort and voter registration speaking tour that was coordinated with the Democratic National Committee and included appearances by Jackson and Democratic House and Senate candidates.
If this was the RNC and James Dobson, this would be all over the news.
But I can't blame the media for this. After all, we hear about the Democrats being busted on campaign finance violations so much it really can't be considered news anymore.
Posted at 01:46 pm by Expertise
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