Obama’s lawyer talks campaign finance
High-powered lawyers who serve high-powered individuals are not strangers to the halls of Yale Law School — but no one can top Bob Bauer’s client.
Bauer, personal lawyer to President Barack Obama and chairman of the Political Law Group of Perkins Coie LLP, surveyed the history of campaign finance reform Thursday before a Yale Law School crowd of 80. In his hour-long talk, Bauer explained how campaign finance law emerged from the Watergate scandal and evolved into a complex web of regulations that have shaped today’s presidential campaigns.
“Election law is a relatively new...
Unsubstantiated, crazy smears like those offered by @1 have no place here. If you have some kind of evidence that "Soros and his friends where [sic] 'bundling' dollars," and that Obama is lying about raising a large chunk of his money from small donors, then put up or shut up. BTW, that evidence seems to have escaped even the conservative media outlets reporting on Obama's fundraising, which have so far evinced a grudging respect for Obama's stunning fundraising, all of which was carefully regulated by the Federal Election Commission. You seem to have beamed in from tinfoil-hat land...
But you might be interested to know that Bauer is actually a skeptic of many campaign finance laws, especially spending limits. He takes the view that they don't work and produce unintended consequences. It's an interesting argument actually. Anyone interested should check out his blog, More Soft Money Hard Law.
#2: Credit card fraud has been rampant in the Obama campaign. This has been widely reported in the blogosphere (although unsurprisingly ignored by the mainstream media, I wonder why?):
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31658_Obama_Campaign_Credit_Card_Fraud
How disingenuous of Mr. Bauer to be concerned of campaign finance. Does he really think that all those millions a week that came pouring into the Obama campaign were from the little people breaking into their piggy banks? Because Obama went outside the public finances Mr. Soros and his friends where “bundling” dollars.