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Your Name Here
Street Address Here
Town, State, Zip Code

Today’s Date Here

Federal Election Commission
999 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20463

To Whomever Is Concerned,

According to the article written by Mathew Mosk of The Washington Post on March 21, 2008,
(http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-t...c_spendin.html) reports filed on the previous day (March 20, 2008) show that Sen. John McCain has officially broken the $54 million dollar spending limitation imposed by the presidential public financing system upon primary bid spending by $4.4 million for an illegal total of $58.4 million. This violation follows in spite of the fact that Federal Election Commission Chairman David Mason did not grant McCain’s Feb. 6 request to withdraw from public matching program.

Consequently, I, (Insert YOUR Full Name Here), require that The Federal Election Committee officially investigate Arizona Senator John McCain of 241 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington D.C., 20510 for purposes of violations of FEC laws limiting campaign spending.

If you have any questions, you may contact me at telephone number (###) ###-####

Without Prejudice,

(YOUR Full Name Here)

http://www.restoretherepublic.com/co...,96/Itemid,59/

I heard about this the other day on NPR. McCain might be screwed over this. It seems pretty clear he broke the letter of the law.

Of course they are downplaying it and claiming the law doesn't apply to him because he requested to be excluded from the public funding, but that was only after using the guarantee of public funding to secure a loan for his campaign.

It's confusing.

1. McCain needed money, so he requested public funding and agreed to abide by the rules that come with that money.
2. He needed more money, so he took out a loan, and used the promise of future public funding as collateral to get the loan.
3. Then he had enough money, so he asked to be excluded from the public money and the rules that come with it.
4. He was never excluded, for various administrative reasons, even though perhaps he should have been, and was warned by the FEC that he is still required to obey the rules that come with public funding.
5. He violated those rules.

If the FEC has any teeth, he is screwed.

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 447556)

If the FEC has any teeth, he is screwed.

Well, he's probably fine then.

It's obviously more smear tactics on the part of the Democrats. :rolleyes:

he should be screwed but he won't be. The elections finance legislation is just crap and a lot of it is his fault.

[irrelevant] McCain is HOTT [/irrelevant]

Are you guys total cereal?

I posted :yum: because I couldn't find :barf:

he is SO hott!

I'm allowed to be differently abled when it comes to who I think is hott!

Nyah!

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 447556)

If the FEC has any teeth, he is screwed.

Last I had heard, the FEC has no teeth because it cannot convene a quorum. To have a quorum, some empty seats must be filled by appointments. And those appointments have not been made. Just wondering who (Democrat and Republican insiders) conspired to do that?

Who works for America? Moderates and Independents. Who works for their political agendas? Extremists. How to subvert the process for advantage of their parties?

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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 447594)

[irrelevant] McCain is HOTT [/irrelevant]

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Originally Posted by case (Post 447617)

:yum:

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 447618)

Are you guys total cereal?

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Originally Posted by case (Post 447621)

I posted :yum: because I couldn't find :barf:

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 447622)

lmao!

They will find a loophole, if not who ever is the Demoncratic pick will hammer him in the up coming debates. If he agrees to debate.