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Where DOES the Money Come From?
Atlas Shrugged ^ | July 20, 2008 | pharmamom

Posted on 07/20/2008 5:00:27 PM PDT by pharmamom

I don't know if this has received Freeperization yet, but Atlas Shrugged has an interesting post about Obama's evidently very-rich-yet-unemployed donors. Surely this will be followed up on by the MSM?


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: campaignfinance; corruption; democratscheat; fundraising; obama; obamatruthfile

1 posted on 07/20/2008 5:00:27 PM PDT by pharmamom
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To: pharmamom

Soros-funded straw donors?


2 posted on 07/20/2008 5:04:19 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: pharmamom
Foreign money coming through straw donors, just like those Chinese laundry folks through whom Red China and Norman Hsu was funneling big money to the Clintons.

It's pretty easy to figure out...!

3 posted on 07/20/2008 5:05:13 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: pharmamom

linky no worky


4 posted on 07/20/2008 5:05:21 PM PDT by the anti-liberal (Write in: Fred Thompson)
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To: pharmamom
Working link to Atlas Shrugs article

. LOTS of foreign addresses. Here's a sample:

A red flag is a donor like Jeanne McCurdy. Look at the contribution excerpt below. It's a compilation of a mere four pages of listings, pages 40-44, approximately 9% of the pages of the total document I received, and it lists contributions made by a Jeanne McCurdy, who is always listed as unemployed, and who does not have an address at least as can be found in the files provided (and, as you might well expect, no phone number or email address either).

John did a computation of her contributions from roughly Aug. 07 through Feb/Mar of 08, and it is over $1200. She ranges from a $15 to a $400 contribution, most running $25/35 to $50. Several of her separate contributions are listed on the same day, a very curious way to make campaign contributions, which are usually in response to mailed solicitations. (She should accumulate them, save on postage.)


5 posted on 07/20/2008 5:09:23 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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To: PapaBear3625

Someone needs to forward this to Rush, Glenn, Shawn, and Mark Levin.


6 posted on 07/20/2008 5:17:09 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Silvie, can you get this article to Chris Plante? Talk Radio needs to see this now and talk it up to get someone’s attention...!


7 posted on 07/20/2008 5:18:24 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: pharmamom

The FEC will investigate this . . . and issue their ruling in mid to late 2009. There will be a small fine and a strongly worded letter.


8 posted on 07/20/2008 5:19:09 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: sinanju

“Soros Buys Presidency” would make a good headline.


9 posted on 07/20/2008 5:25:57 PM PDT by y6162
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To: pharmamom

The Jena 6?


10 posted on 07/20/2008 5:26:25 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
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To: pharmamom

the reason, imo, that al obama went off the government dole

is because he does not want to account for his finances.


11 posted on 07/20/2008 5:29:41 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: pharmamom; All
We need to convert this list to a data sheet, so we can compile individual contribution, , the dates and the amounts paid in, and aggregate the total contributions. There are about 5 or 6 people who "feel" like the Hitchcockian Ms. McCurdy in this mess, so far, and we're only 44 pages through a close to 500 page document. Can any Atlas reader tell me how to convert a word document to a data sheet?

If it can be done someone on FR will know how to do it.

12 posted on 07/20/2008 5:35:10 PM PDT by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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To: pharmamom

You mean we have another Hillary/Soros funding?

Shouldn’t these people be investigated?


13 posted on 07/20/2008 5:36:15 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

UPDATE Jeanne McCurdy works for CBS! TRK sent me this.

She has a blog on Obama’s site & shows up on a Huffington Post page donating over $3K to Obama

Here she is at the Huff Po’s Fundrace

Also shows up as a writer for CBS on Linkedin.com also see this:
In part of our initial discussion, the New York Giants asked us to produce and provide a two-minute video about FOP that they would play on the big-screens during the pre-game ceremonies. A request was made to Hillary’s friend - Jeanne McCurdy - to help in this regard. (here)

UPDATE: Why would Rebecca Kurth give $3137.38 in 112 donations including 34 separately recorded donations on 30-Apr-2008? (ha tip gadget doc)

UPDATE: Interesting tidbit from Dee: Check out Kurth’s middle name ... Hussein. Rebecca Kurth’s Obama blog (Milton Keynes, UK)

Another interesting tidbit from gadget doc. 500k donated by “not employed” people.

heh.


14 posted on 07/20/2008 5:49:16 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
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To: TornadoAlley3

I wonder why the heck she’s using an APO (Army Post Office) in Frankfurt Germany as an address. Or is that Barack’s address?


15 posted on 07/20/2008 5:52:14 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Constitution was not written to protect those who want to destroy America.)
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To: pharmamom

Why is anyone surprised? Dead voters appear in Democrat-heavy cities every election, and last-minute voter registration drives are really just vote multiple times campaigns.


16 posted on 07/20/2008 5:56:41 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: pharmamom

17 posted on 07/20/2008 5:59:24 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (Just say NObama!)
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To: pharmamom
Go, Atlas!

Of course it's foreign money. This is the being stuffed here by globalists. Interesting times ahead.

18 posted on 07/20/2008 6:00:41 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (bweed'n dee boo bow shaaaboood'n dee feee-oooo!)
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To: the anti-liberal

Yeah, I discovered that. Sorry. I don’t do this posting to other people’s stuff very often, so I screwed it up. Anyway, I didn’t know if it means anything or not...I do suspect that even if legal, should it ever make the MSM (in a parallel universe where pigs fly and Hell is very, very cold), people would wrinkle up their faces and say, “Huh?”


19 posted on 07/20/2008 6:02:43 PM PDT by pharmamom (It's the royal "we;" I don't have a mouse in my pocket.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

VR,

I clicked on the article, and it doesn’t show up (Atlas Shrugged). I need an article to forward to Chris. Let me know if you can link me to it.


20 posted on 07/20/2008 6:05:47 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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To: pharmamom
There is clearly fraud going on here.The MSM dutifully repeats the fund raising totals reported by the Obama campaign and states how popular Obama is and how successful he is in fund raising. Obama appears to be bought and paid for by foreign money. My guess would by Soros, the Chinese communists and Muslim terrorists groups. The FEC is asleep at the switch and totally ineffective. The MSM has pushed for campaign finance reform but when the Clinton's and Obama collect millions of dollars from obviously fraudulent sources they say nothing.
21 posted on 07/20/2008 6:07:26 PM PDT by detective
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To: pharmamom

It looks like wealthy democrats are donating many numerous small donations to make it seem as if Obama has the support of the poor and working class. He can claim this way that the average donation was $25.


22 posted on 07/20/2008 6:31:56 PM PDT by Mr. Peabody
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To: detective

So the middle east is buying Obambi’s way in to office so he can stop all the oil drilling and alternative fuel ideas. No way......that would just keep all the money going over seas. (s)


23 posted on 07/20/2008 6:36:07 PM PDT by proudtobeanamerican1 (Media -)
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To: Mr. Peabody

Seems like a lot of work to claim the serfs are supporting you.


24 posted on 07/20/2008 6:37:01 PM PDT by proudtobeanamerican1 (Media -)
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To: proudtobeanamerican1

It’s important to them. Remember when Bush had average donations of $25 and the dems refused to release that info. They became the party of the rich.


25 posted on 07/20/2008 7:24:29 PM PDT by Mr. Peabody
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To: pharmamom
The law of diminishing returns should have set in. How can Obama raise $52 million in June when he's already the nominee? You'd think people would save their money now and wait until after the conventions and then donate in September or October.
26 posted on 07/20/2008 7:29:11 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (BARACK OBAMA WILL SAVE US! HE HAS RISEN!!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Silvie, see Post #5 for the correct URL.


27 posted on 07/20/2008 8:08:02 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: PapaBear3625; pharmamom

Thanks for the link; post. Hooray Pam! BTTT!


28 posted on 07/20/2008 8:22:16 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Thanks, guy!


29 posted on 07/21/2008 3:36:27 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Sent to Grandy & Andy & Nehman; sent to Austin Hill; sent to Chris Plante and his producer Geoff.


30 posted on 07/21/2008 3:41:13 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

I sent the article off to Mark Levin and Glenn Beck. I really do hope that they jump all over this because I’m sick and tired of hositle foreign governments subverting this country’s elections.


31 posted on 07/21/2008 4:01:44 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: sinanju

“Soros-funded straw donors?”

Couldn’t be, must be monrey trees in their yards, they just pick it when it’s ripe.


32 posted on 07/21/2008 4:25:58 AM PDT by dalereed (both)
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To: PapaBear3625; BIGLOOK

. LOTS of foreign addresses. Here’s a sample:

“A red flag is a donor like Jeanne McCurdy. Look at the contribution excerpt below. It’s a compilation of a mere four pages of listings, pages 40-44, approximately 9% of the pages of the total document I received, and it lists contributions made by a Jeanne McCurdy, who is always listed as unemployed, and who does not have an address at least as can be found in the files provided (and, as you might well expect, no phone number or email address either).

John did a computation of her contributions from roughly Aug. 07 through Feb/Mar of 08, and it is over $1200. She ranges from a $15 to a $400 contribution, most running $25/35 to $50. Several of her separate contributions are listed on the same day, a very curious way to make campaign contributions, which are usually in response to mailed solicitations. (She should accumulate them, save on postage.)”


33 posted on 07/21/2008 6:55:14 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Obama gets the special-ed treatment as our untouchable affirmative action candidate)
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To: Grampa Dave
So all that's needed is a name; no address, phone or place of employment. I suppose lists of names could be compiled just about anywhere; welfare rolls, unemployment offices.....cemeteries. Just the sort of thing a Community Organizer could provide while on the job and turn over to a fat cat handler.

Jeanne McCurdy may well have a permanent address and is unemployed forever. At least her plot number ought to have been listed.
34 posted on 07/21/2008 8:40:44 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: BIGLOOK

“So all that’s needed is a name; no address, phone or place of employment. I suppose lists of names could be compiled just about anywhere; welfare rolls, unemployment offices.....cemeteries. Just the sort of thing a Community Organizer could provide while on the job and turn over to a fat cat handler.”

The Chicago rats at the local ward levels have been doing this for about a century. Now they have computer power to make it even more efficient for raising money for Obama.


35 posted on 07/22/2008 7:02:50 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Obama gets the special-ed treatment as our untouchable affirmative action candidate)
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To: All
Update here:

Obama's Foreign Contributions: Who is Ronald Hickel?

36 posted on 07/23/2008 4:37:35 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

“Someone needs to forward this to Rush, Glenn, Shawn, and Mark Levin.”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

No need to worry, our fine investigative journalists at all the alphabet news agencies will be all over this likea duck on a junebug! They will expose any wrongdoing to the sunlight of truth, no candidate can get away with breaking our wonderful campaign finance laws, they could never look Dan Rather in the eye again if they let this kind of thing happen.
Oh, honey, can you roll me another one and this time go a little heavier on the Panama Red please? Oh, and I need another glass of Thunderbird and some lacquer thinner to sniff.


37 posted on 07/24/2008 6:52:09 AM PDT by RipSawyer (What's black and white and red all over? Barack Hussein Obama)
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