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$124,000 of Stephen's Fundraising from Two Addresses

by: Dean Barker

Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 18:49:43 PM EDT
DonutGate goes deeper:
"The John Stephen campaign has accepted $33,058 in contributions - including $23,000 from the Dunkin' Donuts franchises in Massachusetts and Connecticut - that appear to be exceed those allowed under state finance law and previous interpretation of that law," said Pamela Walsh, campaign manager for NH for John Lynch.

"We are asking the Attorney General to quickly clarify whether these contributions are acceptable under New Hampshire law, or whether they exceed legal contribution limits and should be returned," Walsh said.

And then there's this, which is appalling:
About 13 percent of John Stephen's campaign funds - $124,000 - come from a series of businesses that share two addresses in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Lynch campaign has called on Stephen to come clean about the donors, including their interests in New Hampshire, and about whether there are any New Hampshire businesses or citizens who are invested in these companies.
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$124,000 of Stephen's Fundraising from Two Addresses | 3 comments
Stephen campaign gets it wrong (4.00 / 4)
The Stephen campaign is claiming, falsely, that the SoS, not the AG, has jurisdiction. If they bothered to read the campaign finance laws they would see RSA 669:18 requires complaints to be filed with the AG, which then is empowered to investigate. Not a peep about the SoS. Also, RSA 669:19 confers jurisdiction over review of the reports to the AG, not the SoS.

Typical Johnny Stephen - making it up. This is the same guy who idolized Mike Dukakis in 1988, but denied it in later years because it was inconvenient to be a former Dukakis supporter when running for congress as a Republican. Now he is tangled up in his donut gate funding scheme, plus violating at least the spirit of the law - and instead of taking responsibility he is trying to drag the SoS into it?  

Governors should be men and women of honor.  I don't expect them to always do what I think is the right thing, but I do expect thoughtfulness and integrity.  
 



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

Kudos to whoever divided the functions between the (4.00 / 1)
Secretary of State (recipient of the reports) and the Attorney General (reviewer of compliance with the law).
That's probably how all state authorized private corporations ought to be handled.  It doesn't address the problem of lack of jurisdiction over interstate or international operations, but local corporate operations can be properly supervised.

I suspect our artificial persons have gotten used to operating pretty much outside the law, shielded from public scrutiny by the doors of the boardroom.  Family-owned enterprise is, of course, immune from any supervision until it comes time to distribute the assets of an estate.  Secrecy is the key to power; public information (not taxation) is the destroyer.

I'm pro-coffee, but this is out of hand. (0.00 / 0)


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