John Stephen's Donation Difficultiesby: RealNRHFri Aug 27, 2010 at 20:23:15 PM EDT |
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(Whoa. - promoted by Dean Barker) Looks like Guinta isn't the only Republican candidate with some financial irregularities that need explaining. This looks quite a lot like John Stephen's struggling gubernatorial primary campaign has questions to answer. Funny how a pair of struggling but establishment-backed Republican front-runners in their respective races have suddenly developed mysterious windfalls, now that they've started losing support. If seventeen LLCs donate to a campaign and all seventeen are owned and controlled by one person, how in the world is that not a form of laundering donations? If this is legal, then New Hampshire has no functional campaign finance restrictions; unlimited donations would be implicitly allowed by creating out-of-state LLCs and sending five thousand bucks a pop from them. The collection of clowns the Republicans have put up to challenge John Lynch and Carol Shea-Porter makes it exceedingly clear how bare their bench is these days - and how incompetent New Hampshire's Republicans are at campaigning in a state that doesn't reflexively fill in the 'R' dot on the ballot like it used to. |