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NJDhockeyfan10/11/2010 6:50:49 am PDT

re: #101 iossarian

The CoC receives (at least) “hundreds of thousands” of dollars in dues from foreign corporations:

[Link: www.factcheck.org…]

The money goes into the CoC general fund. As a result, they can shift more of their regular general operations spending into political campaigning: effectively the foreign contributions are funding a political campaign.

I’m not enough of an accountant to know whether what they are doing is technically illegal or not. I do know that, at my organization (a higher education institution) it would be illegal for us to use restricted private donations to fund our regular activities.

David Axelrod should provide some proof to back up these allegations, don’t ya think?