Now it's okay to break campaign financing laws by using the White House to host CommieCrat fundraising events:
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[quote] [COLOR=#ffffff]Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, former technology executive Bernard Schwartz and banking executive James Staley were among 30 well-connected figures in the business and finance world who met with [/COLOR][URL="http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/BarackObama"][COLOR=#ffffff]President Barack Obama[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#ffffff] at the White House in March for an unusual economic discussion organized by the Democratic National Committee.
The [/COLOR][URL="http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/WhiteHouse"][COLOR=#ffffff]White House[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#ffffff] released the names on Friday under a policy Obama instituted in 2009 to disclose nearly all White House guests approximately [/COLOR][URL="http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/djdb.php?id=1638"][COLOR=#ffffff]three[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#ffffff] months after they visit. [/COLOR][LEFT][COLOR=#ffffff] The March 7 meeting in the Blue Room of the residence has [/COLOR][URL="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57389.html"][COLOR=#ffffff]drawn attention and criticism[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#ffffff] because most of the attendees were donors or fundraisers and the session was arranged by the DNC. Good-government advocates said hosting the event at the White House was ill-advised.
“There’s a pretty clear line — or there should be a clear line,” Meredith McGehee of the Campaign Legal Center, which presses for tighter controls on campaign finance, recently told POLITICO. “I don’t have a problem with the president inviting Wall Street people to the White House to discuss policy, but why does it need to be DNC-sponsored? I think that’s what raises the eyebrows. Even if it’s not a fundraiser, it’s a cultivation.”[/COLOR] [/LEFT][/quote][LEFT][COLOR=#000000]
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