It’s bad form for a blogger to replicate the title of the post to which is linking, but I can’t resist:
Hotline On Call today reports that John McCain will be raising money for Adjudant General Stan Spears in South Carolina. However the fundraiser violates the law he helped write. The invitation says that the “minimum donation requested is $100″ and says nothing about the maximum.
The law that McCain wrote specifically prohibits Senators from raising more than $2100 for a state candidate. However, the Spears invitation encourages donors to give amounts up to and beyond that limit. This means that John McCain is raising soft money.
McCain has said repeatedly that the purpose of McCain Feingold was to stop federal officeholders from raising soft money.
Go read the whole thing. Wow.
(via 1115)
Update/Correction: Doh. Senate Majority Project has posted an update to the original post which takes some of the wind out of the sails of this one:
Trouble is, it’s not at all clear that this disclaimer passes legal muster. McCain Feingold isn’t a law that mandates disclaimers; it’s a law that (as McCain has reminded us many times) bans federal officeholders from asking for unlimited soft money contributions. When McCain put his name on an invitation that asked for unlimited contributions where the “minimum donation requested was $100,” McCain violated that law. Even with the RSVP card, it appears that the invitation is asking for funds up to $3,500 – well above the amount McCain may raise under the McCain-Feingold law.
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