Monday, March 22, 2004

Henry Kissinger Violating Campaign Finance Laws?

Fun and games with online campaign contribution web site. If you go to www.fundrace.org you can search for who is contributing to whom, and how much. On a lark, I did a Neighbor Search inputting "Henry Kissinger" and turned up the following:


  • HENRY A. KISSINGER - CHAIRMAN
    KISSINGER ASSOCIATES, INC. 350 PARK Ave, NEW YORK, NY 10022
    George W. Bush
    $1,000


  • HENRY A. KISSINGER - CHAIRMAN
    KISSINGER ASSOCIATES, INC. 350 PARK Ave, NEW YORK, NY 10022
    George W. Bush
    $1,000


  • HENRY A. KISSINGER - CHAIRMAN
    KISSINGER ASSOCIATES, INC. 350 PARK Ave, NEW YORK, NY 10022
    George W. Bush
    $1,000

If I understand the current contribution limits established by law Kissinger should only be allowed to give $2,000 per election and is thus in violation. However, the existing law has a footnote that I don't quite understand:
Individual contribution limits under the new law are higher to candidates facing wealthy opponents financing their own election.
I like to think the worst of folks, so let's just pile on a little more criminal activity for which Dr. Strangelove won't see any prosecutorial grief.

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