.comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}

Born at the Crest of the Empire

Thursday, August 07, 2008

More questions on McCain's "straw man" donations

The NYTimes extends the possible "straw man" donations story this morning, apparently finding a whole raft of middle class and poor Jordanians willing to donate over the max to the McCain campaign.

No hard evidence of anything illegal yet, but it sure does smell funny.
Abdullah Makhlouf, the owner of a discount stereo store who is one of Mr. Abdullah’s closest friends, and his wife contributed $9,200.

“He’s like a worse copy than Bush,” Mr. Makhlouf said of Mr. McCain.

When a reporter initially contacted Mr. Makhlouf, he denied giving to the McCain campaign.

After eventually admitting to the donation, Mr. Makhlouf added, “I’m still not going to vote for him.”


The curious thing is, these may not be "straw man" donations. But, then, what sort of relationships or pressure are getting these people to donate way out of their income league for a candidate they don't like when many of them don't even vote.

This is weird......

6 Comments:

  • “This is the horse I’m betting on for the future,” Mr. Abdullah said.

    That seems to be how it works.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:26 AM  

  • Yeah. Well, his Iraq war related business would do far better under McCain.....

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:40 AM  

  • True. It will be interesting to see what happens to folks in the war business if Obama wins.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:08 AM  

  • Well, from the news today about the Iraqis settling on a timeline, it won't make any direct difference.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 1:03 PM  

  • I don't expect defence spending to come down under Obama...just get shuffled around some. Hopefully the military gas bill will come down.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:57 PM  

  • Yeah. Probably a shift more towards soldiers and services and away from big ticket contractor subsidizing weapons systems.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 2:45 PM  

Post a Comment

<< Home