PAC Tied to DeLay Is Fined, Shutting Down

PAC Tied to DeLay Is Fined, Shutting Down

By Suzanne Gamboa
The Associated Press
Thursday, July 20, 2006; 11:53 AM

WASHINGTON -- The fundraising organization that helped vault former Rep. Tom DeLay to Republican leadership ranks in the House and distributed election money to numerous Republicans has been fined for campaign finance violations and is shutting down.

Under an agreement with the Federal Election Commission, Americans for a Republican Majority's political action committee agreed to pay a $115,000 fine and close. The agreement, reached July 7, was made public late Wednesday.

The agreement resulted from an audit by the FEC of the committee's records for Jan. 1, 2001 to Dec. 31, 2002. The audit found DeLay's committee had not properly reported contributions, disbursements and cash on hand.

It also found the committee failed to properly report outstanding debts and obligations and did not follow federal rules for paying for shared federal and nonfederal activities.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072000843.html?nav=rss_nation

And next... DeLay behind bars.

gonna knock you off your feet

to see if they reconstitute elsewhere. If the Administration sees fit to watch us, we can watch them too.

Against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=548&e=4&u=/ap/20060720/ap_on_el_ge/delay_armpac

WASHINGTON - The fundraising organization that helped vault former Rep.
Tom DeLay to Republican leadership ranks in the House and distributed election money to numerous Republicans has been fined for campaign finance violations and is shutting down.

Under an agreement with the Federal Election Commission, Americans for a Republican Majority's political action committee agreed to pay a $115,000 fine and close. The agreement, reached July 7, was made public late Wednesday.

The agreement resulted from an audit by the FEC of the committee's records for Jan. 1, 2001 to Dec. 31, 2002. The audit found DeLay's committee had not properly reported contributions, disbursements and cash on hand.

It also found the committee failed to properly report outstanding debts and obligations and did not follow federal rules for paying for shared federal and nonfederal activities.

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"The reason DeLay became so powerful was all about the money, the amounts of money he could pull in and could distribute to his colleagues," said Melanie Sloan, the watchdog group's executive director. "Nearly every Republican in Congress received money from ARMPAC, thus consolidating his power base. They loved him because he kept them flush. Now we find out, they brought in huge amounts of money, but they did it illegally."

...more...

Let's see if the little turd goes down this time.

We have GOT to take this seat away from the Republicans.

receiving and calling it grassroots (total BS). I cannot wait to see the when the Cunningham scandal comes to full bloom and the funding to phony military contracts was just a revolving door to the RNC slush fund, that would be killer!

:nopity:

Does that mean that there is not going to be a criminal investigation??

That is bs.

Weren't they on the payroll?

Weren't they on the payroll?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13961310/

WASHINGTON - The fund-raising organization that helped vault former Rep. Tom DeLay to GOP leadership and distributed election money to numerous fellow Republicans has been fined for campaign finance violations and is shutting down.

Under an agreement with the Federal Election Commission, Americans for a Republican Majority’s political action committee agreed to pay a $115,000 fine and close. The agreement, reached July 7, was made public late Wednesday.

The agreement resulted from an audit by the FEC of the committee’s records for Jan. 1, 2001, to Dec. 31, 2002. The audit found DeLay’s committee had not properly reported contributions, disbursements and cash on hand...

Although, $115,000 is chump change to them.

Dani DeLay Ferro, DeLay’s spokeswoman and his daughter, said the fine and shutdown of ARMPAC were voluntary. The audit “concerns highly technical FEC reporting rules, which due to their complexity, the commission has since reformed and simplified,” Ferro said in a statement.

Really what were thise "highly technical" rules?

Looks like pretty basic accounting to me.



The FEC audit found that ARMPAC:

Failed to report $74,295 in financial activity in 2001 and $166,340 in 2002.
Failed to report debts and obligations totaling $322,306 to 25 vendors.
Failed to separate expenses between its federal and nonfederal account, resulting in the nonfederal account paying $203,483 more than its allowable expenses.

And trying to keep Ronnie Earle from figuring out what you are doing. Just because you are calling him a vindictive, partisan, rube County DA in Texas doesn't mean he actually is one...

I love how this article actually states the way that Delay got power-MONEY. Nothing new really but all the talk about Delay's strengths and abilities is just that talk he has no ability other than to basicallly bribe members of his own party to not only do what he is told to get them to do but to like him. Sad.

I posted something similiar about Ralph Reed yesterday- all the talk about how talented and great they were is nothing but glorious self promotion and self congratulations by the leaders about how great and visionary THEY ARE.

All smoke and mirrors. All politics no substance no governance. Can their movement survive the peril of actually being in power?

The dirty tricks of running for office is what they excel at, not the day to day minutiae of actually governing, that they do not like, it is too much like work. They like the trappings of power, the perquisites and prestige which accompany it, but they want no part of the duties and responsibilities attendant of the office. Those they wish to slough off on aides and staff.