Ashcroft's Senate Campaign Must Pay Fine

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General John Ashcroft's 2000 Senate campaign and his political action committee have agreed to pay a $37,000 civil fine for campaign finance violations.

The Federal Election Commission on Tuesday disclosed the agreement it reached with Ashcroft 2000 and the Spirit of America PAC. The campaign and PAC denied any wrongdoing. The agreement left it to them to work out how to divide the fine between them.

At issue was the Senate campaign's use of a mailing list developed by Ashcroft's PAC.

The commission concluded Ashcroft 2000 received about $110,000 in list-related income, resulting in an excessive contribution to it by the political action committee. PACs are allowed to give up to $5,000 per election to a federal candidate.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-ashcroft-fec,0,3942905.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

A piddly shit fine well after the fact & everyone goes back to business as usual. :puke:

a mere drop in the bucket. they have mastered the art of asking forgiveness rather than asking permission first! :argh:

...nor the death of his opponent.

Asscrack could not beat a dead man or a live woman!

Apparently he wasn't listening.

What can be said about a person who loses an election to a dead man?