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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI smell a rat.
After you read this article, is it possible Mittwit has set up his donors exactly the way he set up unsuspecting companies when he was the head of Bain. I've asked this before: can he keep whatever is left over in his coffers and stiff his donors:
Check out this page:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81499.html
woolldog
(8,791 posts)Booster
(10,021 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Dude's a grifter...
Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)Texas taxpayers ended up paying about $3M for his security during the primaries, even though he has a huge war chest.
Booster
(10,021 posts)think there's anyplace on earth where he can hide from the Koch Bros. You would think taking millions and millions of dollars to run for office and then making sure you lost would be illegal. Bet if you or I did such a thing it would be.
the movie Willard WAS about a rat.....
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Welcome to DU!
Mopar151
(10,006 posts)I don't remember details, but he dumped $50M into his 2008 campaign, and took it as a "bad debt" loss.
The rules have changed - the real money is in the super-PACs and the "education" PACS, and they're none too transparent. I'd look for a skim or kickback situation there, perhaps going directly offshore.