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DFW

(54,445 posts) Sun Nov 15, 2015, 06:46 PM Nov 2015

Oops. Elizabeth Warren's staff returned my contribution.

According to their letter, my check to them, drawn on my personal account, "appears to be from a prohibited source." Prohibited sources, they point out, include corporations, national banks, foreign nationals, etc. I'm certain that I'm not a corporation or a national bank, and last I looked, the Confederacy was dissolved about 150 years ago, so I'm rather confident I'm not a foreign national (no foreign address or account appears on the check either).

So I guess the Warren campaign considers late-middle-aged guys from the South to be prohibited sources.

I sent the check back, asking them to reconsider.

I don't want to go through the rest of my life as a prohibited source

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Oops. Elizabeth Warren's staff returned my contribution. (Original Post) DFW Nov 2015 OP

Thats weird, indeed. oem Purveyor Nov 2015 #1

You have to appreciate the effort jeepers Nov 2015 #2

Senator Warren had nothing to do with it, I'm sure DFW Nov 2015 #6

That.. is..odd. darkangel218 Nov 2015 #3

Was the check from your personal account dumbcat Nov 2015 #4

No, of course not. DFW Nov 2015 #5

Maybe it was the postmark on the envelope in which you mailed the check? scarletwoman Nov 2015 #7

Langley, Virginia. DFW Nov 2015 #8

Aha! Next door to the CIA! scarletwoman Nov 2015 #10

Well, not exactly next door DFW Nov 2015 #12

Keep the letter! oldandhappy Nov 2015 #9

I'm not against the sources they named being prohibited.... DFW Nov 2015 #11

Good for you. You are far nicer than I am! oldandhappy Nov 2015 #18

Are you on some big guberment list? Omaha Steve Nov 2015 #13

Oh, I'm sure I'm evil DFW Nov 2015 #14

Political candidates process thousands of contributions every month... brooklynite Nov 2015 #15

I hate to see you suffering like this. For a modest fee, I'm happy to launder-- petronius Nov 2015 #16

You know I can't do that DFW Nov 2015 #17

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)

1. Thats weird, indeed. oem

Reply to DFW (Original post)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 06:53 PM

Nov 2015

jeepers

(314 posts)

2. You have to appreciate the effort

Reply to Purveyor (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 06:59 PM

Nov 2015

Both yours and the senators

DFW

(54,445 posts)

6. Senator Warren had nothing to do with it, I'm sure

Reply to jeepers (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:24 PM

Nov 2015

The one time I ran into her, she seemed bright enough to know the difference between a personal check and a company check. Her staff is obviously not quite as gifted.

darkangel218

(13,985 posts)

3. That.. is..odd.

Reply to DFW (Original post)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:00 PM

Nov 2015

dumbcat

(2,120 posts)

4. Was the check from your personal account

Reply to DFW (Original post)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:04 PM

Nov 2015

drawn from a bank in Europe?

DFW

(54,445 posts)

5. No, of course not.

Reply to dumbcat (Reply #4)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:19 PM

Nov 2015

It was drawn on my personal account from my local bank in Dallas. When I send checks to the States, I always use my personal account in Dallas. I only have the one account in the States, and no checks on my euro account here in Germany, so no confusion even possible.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)

7. Maybe it was the postmark on the envelope in which you mailed the check?

Reply to DFW (Reply #5)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:31 PM

Nov 2015

From where did you mail it?

DFW

(54,445 posts)

8. Langley, Virginia.

Reply to scarletwoman (Reply #7)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:35 PM

Nov 2015

You, know, right next door to Liechtenstein and the Cayman Islands.

I usually do all this stuff from my brother's house when I'm there visiting. Over here I seldom have time. I didn't even see this for 3 weeks. It was in a package of mail I got from Dallas that I hadn't had time to look through.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)

10. Aha! Next door to the CIA!

Reply to DFW (Reply #8)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:41 PM

Nov 2015

They don't want no damn contributions from no damn spooks!

DFW

(54,445 posts)

12. Well, not exactly next door

Reply to scarletwoman (Reply #10)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:49 PM

Nov 2015

But even so, Virginia hasn't been "foreign" since Lee surrendered at Appomattox, far as I recall.

Besides, who're you calling a spook?

THIS is a spook: https://www.facebook.com/Innamagg/videos/1099119560133258/

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)

9. Keep the letter!

Reply to DFW (Original post)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:38 PM

Nov 2015

That is a nice memory of our political situation! And I would consider it an honor to be a prohibited source. Congrats!

DFW

(54,445 posts)

11. I'm not against the sources they named being prohibited....

Reply to oldandhappy (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:45 PM

Nov 2015

Even though Citizens United makes a complete farce out of it. I am just baffled at their inability to recognize a person check when they get one.

Anyway, I'll see if I remain a prohibited source to them. If so, then I'll send the money to Al Franken or someone like that.

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)

18. Good for you. You are far nicer than I am!

Reply to DFW (Reply #11)

Mon Nov 16, 2015, 12:26 PM

Nov 2015

Omaha Steve

(99,741 posts)

13. Are you on some big guberment list?

Reply to DFW (Original post)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 10:39 PM

Nov 2015

You might be evil?

DFW

(54,445 posts)

14. Oh, I'm sure I'm evil

Reply to Omaha Steve (Reply #13)

Mon Nov 16, 2015, 01:11 AM

Nov 2015

Just ask half the posters on DU (or 99% of the ones on one of the candidates' boards). They KNOW!!

Probably on the list of a few gubmints, too. It's now 6:10 AM and I have to be in Paris in 6 hours. Can I worry about all that AFTER breakfast?