It's a strange tide when a sitting senator manages to run a blowout against opponents in fundraising. Sure, it happens in heavily leaning districts all over the country. But the demographics really tell the story.
Men and Women, Black, White, Hispanic.. but if you were wondering how to dominate a special interest group, no one has it down like Mitch McConnell with dead people.
Yep, you've heard that right.
http://www.rawstory.com/...
Officials with a Kentucky super PAC supporting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blame a computer error for a $100,000 contribution that appeared more than a month after the donor died. Meanwhile, the Libertarian Party filed a federal lawsuit to lift limits on posthumous donations.
“This is pure free speech,” an attorney for the Libertarian party, Alan Gura told USA Today. “A dead person can’t corrupt someone.”
The lawsuit, currently pending before a federal appellate court, seeks to count a $217,000 donation by a deceased Tennessee man, Raymond Groves Burrington, as a lump sum donation for the party’s national committee instead of dispersing it in annual installments. Records show a trust in Burrington’s name has already given the party $153,200.
Federal regulations currently limit posthumous political donations to no more than $5,200 a year for a federal candidate during an election cycle and $32,400 for parties.
USA Today reported that 32 people listed as dead on federal campaign records are credited with more than $586,000 in contributions since Jan. 1, 2009, with just under 20 percent of that coming from the donation to McConnell’s group, Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, from Texas home developer Bob Perry, a longtime Republican supporter.
Nothing says taking care of your family and avoiding that pesky death tax Republicans keep griping about like giving everything post your death to a candidate.
I wish I had a long diary about this.. I am working on something else, but this story just made my eyes roll.