Local Republicans
The last time I wrote about my “Local Republican Party” and their odd way of dealing with money, a Democrat informed me that I misspelled Loco in the headline.
I’m gonna be honest with you and tell you that my local Republicans have loco camped out in their eyeballs. And why voters trust them with our money when they can’t account for their own is a mystery.
On July 1, they filed with the FEC showing that they were $22,000 in debt. Click the little one to see the big one or click here to see the whole damn report.
At the time I wondered how the hell they could do that because it’s against the law.
Luckily, the Federal Elections Commission wondered the same thing. See their letter in pdf format.
Your report discloses a negative ending cash balance of $22,680.63. This suggests that you have overdrawn your account, made a mathematical error, or incurred a debt. If your committee has incurred a debt or obligation, please itemize this debt on Schedule D, show a zero balance on Line 8of the Summary Page and include the amount on Line 10. Please file an amendment to your report to accurately disclose your financial activities.
Now let me tell you how I am going to have a whole mess of fun with this.
For the past two presidential election cycles my local Republicans have filed complaints with the FEC swearing that local Democrats are violating the election code and should be punished like a red-headed stepchild. Both damn times the FEC ruled in the Democrats favor. But it cost us time, money, and a lot of grief.
So I’m sending the FEC some cookies.
And Alfredo. Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen gets some cookies, too.
“Red headed stepchild”. I like that. You left out “left handed and eyes two different colors.
1Which party was it that had principals, like fiscal responsibility? And which party said low taxes, or even no taxes (or in this case contributions) was the epitome of outstanding fiscal management? I seem to remember terms like “balanced budget” tossed about like they were ready to carve it in stone right under the 10th Commandment.
Well, I won’t spend any more time trying to remember, as I guess they can’t remember either.
2Alfredo deserves a platter of cookies and a bottle of his finest favorite beverage.
Republicons are too predictable. They accused the Democratic Party of what Republicons routinely do. I’d love to play poker with them; if they’re accusing, you know they’re holding.
3PKM beat me to it. Alfredo deserves an adult beverage to go with those cookies.
4This is obviously the fault of Big Government and Biased Rulings and a whole bunch of other stupid stuff they’ll make up in a minute, but it sure ain’t the Republicans’ fault because nothing is.
5I hope the owners of all the businesses they have not paid are Repugs too.
6About 4 years ago the Minnesota Republicans got evicted from their offices because they were so far behind in rent. All in all, they were in the red by several hundred thousand samollians. They crept into a dingy, cheap building in one of the neighborhoods they’d tried real hard to neglect because it had poor people and colored people in it. Plus their state chairman split when news of how pathetic he was went public. That was all during the Tim Pawlenty debacle.
Oh, it was all so entertaining!
7Speaking of bankruptcy, aren’t all the rethug candidates except Thump seeing their financial support weaken? Is Walker still the
8Koch’s golden(Canadian Wall?) boy? Hope they all start to circle the drain and just before the convention, Stumper gets hauled into court to defend his Trump University scam. Now that’s presidential material.
May I suggest that inhaling too many pesticides will lead to very creative and erroneous accounting?
9They just can’t figure it out, can they. There’s that thing that says laws don’t apply to them, then along comes the rest of the world that isn’t as evolved as they are and things get all messed up. Blame anybody that’s not them.
Tsk!
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