John McCain's Top Contributors are Possibly Commiting Election Fraud!! I Demand an Investigation!!

[redstate_democrat]

I would not be going off on a limb here if I said that something smells STANK about two apartment renters donating $57,000 to McCain and the GOP this election cycle.

There needs to be an investigation into this. When you make a political donation, don't you do so under penalty of perjury? If not, then they need to be asked about these political donations under penalty of perjury. These rat bastards are funneling money through their employees to subvert the will of the American people and Democracy. They are trying to BUY influence at the highest levels. This can't be tolerated. No, no, no, no, NOT from "Mr. Campaign Finance Reform" himself! No, no, no, no, NOT from "Mr. McCain-Feingold" himself who BLASTED Barack Obama about opting out of public financing.

But the largest collective response from a single company, the report noted, came from the Hess Corporation. Together, Hess employees or their relatives poured out more than $300,000 to Mr. McCain’s joint fund-raising committee with the Republican National Committee in June, according to campaign finance records.

On Monday, after the Web site, Talking Points Memo, listed the names of the Hess contributors, scrutiny fell on a couple, Alice Rocchio, who is identified in campaign finance records as an office manager at Hess, and her husband, Pasquale, who is listed as a foreman at Amtrak.

They each gave a whopping $28,500 to Mr. McCain and the Republican National Committee.

Ms. Rocchio said in a telephone interview that she had made the contribution on her own and no one at the company had reimbursed her for it but declined to explain further.

“It’s very personal,” she said. “It’s something I chose to do.”

In February, Mr. and Mrs. Rocchio each gave the maximum $2,300 for the primary to Mr. McCain. At the end of June, they also tacked on an additional $2,300 each to Mr. McCain’s general election legal and accounting compliance fund, giving at the same time as a slew of others connected to Hess.

Publicly available information about the Rocchios offers a mixed picture of their socio-economic situation. They appear to rent their home in Flushing, a working class community in Queens, although property records also show they purchased a condominium in Arizona last year for more than $560,000 and a home in North Carolina for $525,000 in 2006. Motor vehicle records show a 2003 Buick and 1993 Chevrolet registered in their names.

But Mr. Rocchio is enrolled as a Democrat, and they do not appear to have previously made any political contributions to a federal candidate or committee;

more at ----> http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/mccains-oil-co-donors/

I demand an investigation.

[redstate_democrat]

1. The McCain Camp "Went Back And Looked At It and Found Nothing Wrong"

Update | 6:54 p.m.: Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, said officials have gone back and examined the donations from the Hess Corporation, including from the Rocchios, but found nothing untoward.

“We went back and looked at,” he said. “We followed the law. If anything raises a flag, then we’ll obviously look further into it. But at this point, there’s no indication that anything happened.”

Mr. Rogers also pointed out that John B. Hess had also contributed to Mr. Obama in late March. Mr. Hess was listed on a fund-raiser the campaign held in New York on
June 10, Mr. Rogers added, a week before Mr. McCain’s announcement of his position on offshore drilling.

[nc4bo]

2. So what governmental agency oversees election contributions?

If they aren't part of the problem then I reckon that would be a start.

Unfortunately since there is no such thing as a left-wing megamedia source outside of the internet, we've got a problem getting this out.

[Hope And Change]

3. K & R!Thanks for posting!

[redstate_democrat]

4. kicky kick

[Gabi Hayes]

5. Rachel had a guy from TPM on her show, and they went into some

detail about Hess, and the family that maxed out

too bad it won't go any farther than that