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Sali's Sorry Tardy Disclosure
Submitted by Sisyphus on Sat, 07/26/2008 - 3:25pm.
Chris has published the details from the Minnick campaign on Sali's hapless financial disclosure. Sali's very late report is so pathetically incompetent he had to dump it late on a Friday night to avoid media scrutiny. And it ought to make a Republican blush. And never was there a finer list of the most sinister cast of characters to grease the halls of Congress, like Halliburton, WalMart and tobacco giant RJ Reynolds. And while oil interests like Chevron, Conoco, and Exxon disclosed the price Sali was willing to sell out Idaho's schoolchildren, no contributions were listed for the day Sali hosted a luncheon for oil lobbyists. And the folks importing nuclear waste into Idaho from Kuwait sure got their money's worth.
There is a curious "refund as a credit" notation of $12,000 for something called Bluepoint Consulting out of Scottsdale Arizona that is unexplained. And the campaign submitted a miscellaneous document with the FEC which states: "Sali for Congress has completed the July 15 quarterly filing. However, in reviewing the report, we have found that the Column B Election cycle to date numbers are incorrect. If fact, the cycle to date numbers $1,032,555.70 are identical to the 30 Day Post General 2006 report. We have no way to explain this anomaly." Faustus or MG, any thoughts?
UPDATE: 7/27 1:20; Chris beat me to the punch on Popkey's take on Sali's flailing and failing campaign, where he saved me a bunch of work by looking up this gem: "As of his May report, which the campaign says is correct, Sali got 73 percent of his money from PACs. Minnick has raised 72 percent from individuals." As noted above, Sali's constituency ain't Idahoans, its big business lobbyists like the oil companies from whom he's been begging, and recieving, campaign money. And he's cynically taking for granted Idaho's knee jerk Republicans, which, if the disclosure is accurate, will be his undoing. No word yet from sugar daddy, Club for Growth. Maybe the strategy is to look as pathetic as possible to get pity money. But as the staid WSJ noted, he ain't safe.
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I Noticed A Typo
The Line 15 Itemized statement says that the two miscellaneous receipts (for the consulting and printing company refunds) was something like $14,750.21, whereas the Line 15 amount listed on the summary page was $14,850.21. I realize that's likely due to a typo, but c'mon... this sort of thing is supposed to be double-checked. Maybe this reveals Sali's plan to balance the budget while lowering taxes -- hire incompetent accountants.
"When all else fails, revel in the absurdity of it all"
Thanks Bubbles
I hope you spend some quality time with it. Hoffman's flippant response to the inquiry on why this wasn't completed in a timely manner was arrogant enough, implying that missing the deadline was no big deal. But when the fifteen extra days results in the generation of such an incompetent report, people gotta wonder. I've been thinking that Chris has been too pessimistic on Minnick's chances, and he correctly concludes that this might be the beginning of the end for Sali and his reliance on the knee jerk Republican vote. Wrong year for that as moderate Republicans and independents are shopping for a new direction. What he fails to realize is that he's provided them with no reason to vote for him. He's taking them for granted.
On a weekend?
Sis, you're posting on a weekend?! Are you sick? You usually go under...
big
This is actually pretty big, big enough to drag Sis out of his weekend bunker, I think.
Sali is showing an insane amount of incompetence for an election year. How much more before the election fully shifts?
Who knows what my deal is?
Funny how the muse strikes when I have more pressing matters to attend to. I got three more lined up in my head for today. Maybe I'll even get to them, but usually when that happens, the site bugs out.