G.O.P. Query Involves 1% of Giving to Obama
By MICHAEL LUO and GRIFF PALMER
NYT
Are donations from foreign citizens powering Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign? That is what the Republican National Committee contends in a complaint filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission, asking the oversight agency to conduct a full audit of Mr. Obama’s campaign donations.
Republican officials are also questioning the legitimacy of hundreds of millions of dollars in small donations to Mr. Obama’s campaign, donations that do not have to be itemized in reports to the election commission. But it is the suggestion of money from overseas being funneled illegally to the Obama campaign that carries some of the most explosive implications.
A New York Times analysis of campaign finance records, however, found $3.3 million in contributions in which the donor listed an abbreviation other than that of one of the 50 states or an American territory. That is about 1 percent of the $270 million in itemized donations over $200 that the Obama campaign has reported. The largest amount, about $2 million, came from people who list NA, presumably for not applicable, in the space where they would normally list a state. The other abbreviations listed included UK, for United Kingdom, and JP, for Japan. Others could simply be data entry errors.
Senator John McCain’s campaign received about $517,000 in contributions from such donors.
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NYT
Are donations from foreign citizens powering Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign? That is what the Republican National Committee contends in a complaint filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission, asking the oversight agency to conduct a full audit of Mr. Obama’s campaign donations.
Republican officials are also questioning the legitimacy of hundreds of millions of dollars in small donations to Mr. Obama’s campaign, donations that do not have to be itemized in reports to the election commission. But it is the suggestion of money from overseas being funneled illegally to the Obama campaign that carries some of the most explosive implications.
A New York Times analysis of campaign finance records, however, found $3.3 million in contributions in which the donor listed an abbreviation other than that of one of the 50 states or an American territory. That is about 1 percent of the $270 million in itemized donations over $200 that the Obama campaign has reported. The largest amount, about $2 million, came from people who list NA, presumably for not applicable, in the space where they would normally list a state. The other abbreviations listed included UK, for United Kingdom, and JP, for Japan. Others could simply be data entry errors.
Senator John McCain’s campaign received about $517,000 in contributions from such donors.
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