Latest Guinta FEC Complaint Raises Questionsby: Dean BarkerMon Sep 26, 2011 at 20:53:02 PM EDT |
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( - promoted by William Tucker) Today Frank Guinta - recently named one of the most corrupt members of Congress - was the subject of yet another FEC complaint. Back when the Republican elite in New Hampshire were trying to show off how the money would roll in - if only they could depose of Tea Party leader Jack Kimball - someone leaked this to the Union Leader: Guinta mentioned that he had contacted several national groups for money and that he had been hoping "to get up to $100,000 from the Republican Governors Association (for the NHGOP)," the source said.and: When Kimball asked for examples, the source said, (House Speaker Bill) O'Brien mentioned that he had been told by Guinta that the RGA had refused a donation request.According to the complaint filed today, this is illegal: The Federal Election Campaign Act prohibits federal candidates and officeholders like Congressman Frank Guinta from soliciting, directing, or transferring, or spending funds in connection with an election that are outside the federal restrictions and limits. Under those limits, federal candidates and officeholders may solicit up to $10,000 per year from federally permissible sources - such as individuals and federal multicandidate committees - for the federal and nonfederal accounts of a state party. But $100,000 is in far excess of the limits and the RGA is a non-permissible federal donor.The RGA denies it: "At no point did the RGA commit resources nor were we solicited to do so," (RGA spox Mike) Schrimpf said.Frank Guinta had the same response to this as he did to being named "most corrupt": A spokesman for Guinta said the congressman had no immediate comment.Some questions that come to mind: Who's not telling the truth - the Union Leader's source, or the RGA? And who was the source? Frank Guinta himself? Bill O'Brien? (find me > 140 on birch paper; on Twitter < 140) |