http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/14/rick-santorum-super-pac-fec-complaint_n_3756984.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
WASHINGTON -- Former 2012 Republican presidential candidate and Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) broke campaign finance rules by directing a $1 million check from a donor to a super PAC backing his candidacy, according to a complaint filed on Wednesday by government watchdog groups.
The Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 filed a joint complaint with the FECagainst Santorum for allegedly directing a $1 million contribution from energy executive Bill Doré to Red White And Blue Fund, a super PAC run by former Santorum staffers. While a candidate like Santorum can ask a donor to give money to a super PAC, it is a violation of campaign finance laws to direct or solicit a contribution above the legal limit of $5,000.
wow the religious right winger extraordinaire is a crook? who knew we thought he just wanted to control your bedroom, and he's padding his coffers how right wing of him.
Red White And Blue Fund was instrumental to Santorum's unexpected success in the Republican presidential primaries. Santorum's campaign was short on money for most of the primary season, but the super PAC -- powered by contributions from Doré and Wyoming investor Foster Friess -- was able to spend enough money to help Santorum eke out a win in the Iowa caucuses and to push him into position as eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney's chief competition.The complaint stems from an article by The Sunlight Foundation's Keenan Steinerwherein Doré described a dinner he attended with Santorum. According to Steiner, Doré initially said that he told Santorum that he wanted to make a $1 million contribution to his campaign, an amount far above the legal limit. Santorum, according to the initial recount of the dinner, then told Doré about the Red White And Blue Fund.Doré, however, attempted to walk back the story after the first telling. "I don't want to get [Santorum] in any sort of problem. I would not want to compromise his future," Doré told Steiner.On a follow-up call with Steiner, Doré stated that he did not receive information about the super PAC from Santorum, but rather from his campaign aides.
big crook and he's like the rest do the dirt then comeback for another shot, can't blame him it's those who vote right wing that allow this compromising of our political system, they know their candidates are crooked when they try to block other party votes which make their electorate complicit of the crimes they commit in the pursuit of office that they vote for him to assume.
