The Federal Election Commission has ordered Joe Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign (ha!) to pay $219,000 back to the government after finding good ol’ Joe made some record-keeping errors, used someone’s charter plane without paying as much as he should have for it, and somehow raised too much money from some people. Yes, the campaign that barely managed to outraise Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel collected too much money from some of its inspired supporters.
Thankfully, somebody is still working at Joe Biden for President 2008, our country’s most important cause, and that person has paid this fee back to your government. Hooray!
Biden also made the good decision of using VoteFactory.com, a sign-printing thing run by Alan Bernard, who was then the director of the Hawkeye Labor Council, the coalition of unions in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This was supposed to get you union support, secretly. But it turns out nobody liked Alan Bernard because he was addicted to meth and didn’t do a great job running the local minor league baseball team, the Cedar Rapids Kernels. Then he pled guilty for forging a bunch of Hawkeye Labor checks.
Part of the problem with all these dumb campaign decisions was that “Joe the Biden” wasn’t able to hire the best staffers, as everyone knew he couldn’t win. But the joke is on those folks who worked for campaigns that did “better” than 0.9% of the vote, as those lame Biden staffers now work in the White House probably. Ha! [Washington Post]
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I guess he had a little too much Joe-mentum.
Say it ain’t so, Joe! You’re the one who takes the train and wears holes in his shoes from all the walking to places. You’re supposed to be the Sam Walton of politics. Color me disillusioned.
This is a big FEC-ing deal!
Meh…no dead hooker or live kid? Yawn…
[re=620379]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Biden really is just like Cheney, isn’t he?
Just another Chicago-style thug….what? Delaware?
Okay, just another Wilmington-style thug…
658.41 at 1-800 Flowers.com? What’s that for? Are bouquets a key tool in presidential primaries?
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I dare you to look at that photo and tell me we shouldn’t call him “Joey.”
And this would have the added benefit of distinguishing our lovable VP from his unfortunate namesake, that vile reptile of bile from Connecticut who was the original propagator of mentum.
[re=620385]Extemporanus[/re]: Worse. All Cheney did was love the country too much. I don’t think he had the brass cojones to fly on a charter plane — and stiff the guy who let you borrow it.
[re=620393]V572625694[/re]: Man, those Dover maras are insidious!
Joe haz biden-off more than he can choose?
[re=620408]user-of-owls[/re]: And Bethany Beach — you wanna be careful who you look at down there on the boardwalk.
I’m not so sure of the wisdom of having anything to do with an outfit called “VoteFactory”.
That’s like being a candy apple red Corvette. You might as well just write a blank check to the highway patrol for the speeding tickets and fill the amount in every once in a while.
I’m sure that the right-wing and usual suspects of the mainstream media won’t be so dumb as to claim that this is a major scandal that shows Biden must resign immediately; and Obama too, just for picking him.
[re=620393]V572625694[/re]: [re=620408]user-of-owls[/re]:
LEAVE CHAMP ALONE!!!!
Why couldn’t he just use the munnies from his swear jar?
Can’t blame the guy for letting things get a little loose at the margins. I know I was expecting the FEC to be bogged down with demands to investigate where Hopey (blax, that is all) got all his scratch for at least 5 years past any statute of limitations.
Welcome to 21st-century America:
Lose.
Cheat.
Pick one.
We should carve that on the fucking Statue of Liberty.
Boy, I have trouble keeping track of what I’m supposed to do for one job. These people who have three and four related lobbying firms, sign companies, and collect attorney fees etc. floor me.
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