Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, said Sunday that claims he made inappropriate payments to his sister’s company for work never performed were untrue and made by a felon trying to get a reduced sentence.
Uh, the felon was his finance chairman.
Steele paid more than $37,000 to a Maryland company run by his sister, Monica Turner, for work related to his unsuccessful 2006 Senate campaign. If she was not reimbursed, both he and his sister would be violating campaign finance laws, said Steele.
“It was a legitimate reimbursement of expenses,” Steele said on ABC’s “This Week.”
The “reimbursement” was over a year after she shut down the company.
In addition to the payment to Steele’s sister, Fabian alleged that the candidate used money from his state campaign improperly, that Steele paid $75,000 from the state campaign to a law firm for work that was never performed, and that he or an aide transferred more than $500,000 in campaign cash from one bank to another without authorization.
20,
Well, as a black person, I can say from my point of view the GOP hasn’t done one positive thing for black people since Lincoln.
#21 smartalix:
Curious, what have the Dems “done for black people” since the Civil Rights movement?
“In the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes.”
from:
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/12/13/194350.shtml
#22 Within a decade of the Johnson era black social experimentation legislation, black families went from being more stable than whites to a total shambles.
So, maybe some blacks have seen all the “help” that the Dems have given them, and have run screaming…
Isn’t this normal in politics?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/15/biden-routes-campaign-cash-to-family-their-firms/
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/15/biden-routes-campaign-cash-to-family-their-firms/
… sigh
#9, Cow-Patty,
Really. Barney Frank said so.
You still haven’t backed that up. You posted a link but there was nothing on that to back up your claim. Just more of your effen crap.
You don’t have anything constructive to say so you go and invent the shit. Typical right wing nut bull.
So what happened. You have been here all day. Did you get laid off from your executive position at the poopcycle stand?
#22, brm,
Your link goes to a right wing nut hit piece. They claim to link to something but that link is dead. A search reveals that their are several other right wing nut sites all claiming the same link as yours.
I call bullshit.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was pushed by Kennedy and Johnson. It was written by a Democrat Senator and pushed through the Senate and House. What these “26 major civil rights bills” are only they know.
22, 23,
You guys are so simple. Why is everything a zero-sum game ot you? I don’t like the democrats either, and can’t wait for Obama to rein in Pelosi (that stupid excuse for a politician).
Yes, the Dems suck a lot, too. But their problems stem from their lack of a spine. The GOP always seems to me to actively plan to do damage to the lower classes, not just blacks, but we get the shittiest end of the stick. The Dems biggest problem is being nothing more than a speed bump for GOP outrageousness.
# 28 smartalix said, “You guys are so simple. Why is everything a zero-sum game ot you?”
Who said it was a zero sum game?
Fusion, you do know that more of the Republicans in Congress supported the Civil Rights Acts than the Democrats?
29,
Again, you demonstrate your ignorance, paddy-o. You make it a zero-sum game every time you pull the opposite contrast to every observation I make. If I say the GOP is a bunch oif crooked evil assholes, that does not mean the Democrats are automatically great in my eyes that assumption creates a zero-sum situation.
The proper observation is “Smartalix doesn’t likethe GOP”. By turning it into a polarizing comparison without being given any indication it was, you created a zero-sum assumption. Get it?
But as you have abundantly demonstrated you are an idiot, I can forgive you not understanding complex concepts like these.
#31
You mean like when you lie about the GOP not supporting the civil rights legislation?
You know if you say that headline real fast it sounds like something else.