Election Officials Catch Dead Man Donating $100,000 To Sen. Mitch McConnell

[Purveyor]

Officials with a Kentucky super PAC supporting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blame a computer error for a $100,000 contribution that appeared more than a month after the donor died. Meanwhile, the Libertarian Party filed a federal lawsuit to lift limits on posthumous donations.

“This is pure free speech,” an attorney for the Libertarian party, Alan Gura told USA Today. “A dead person can’t corrupt someone.”

The lawsuit, currently pending before a federal appellate court, seeks to count a $217,000 donation by a deceased Tennessee man, Raymond Groves Burrington, as a lump sum donation for the party’s national committee instead of dispersing it in annual installments. Records show a trust in Burrington’s name has already given the party $153,200.


Federal regulations currently limit posthumous political donations to no more than $5,200 a year for a federal candidate during an election cycle and $32,400 for parties.

USA Today reported that 32 people listed as dead on federal campaign records are credited with more than $586,000 in contributions since Jan. 1, 2009, with just under 20 percent of that coming from the donation to McConnell’s group, Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, from Texas home developer Bob Perry, a longtime Republican supporter.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/05/election-officials-catch-dead-man-donating-100000-to-sen-mitch-mcconnell/

[Scuba]

1. Anyone surprised that a dead man would support a brain-dead man?

[theHandpuppet]

2. It's the Zombie Apocalypse

And Mitch is its governor of Woodbury.

[progressoid]

12. ...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZXZe1b4Fvzo/TI--UmqmaQI/AAAAAAAAAzw/y6YlzyF505E/s400/mitch+mcconnell.jpg

[sufrommich]

3. "the Libertarian Party filed a federal lawsuit to lift limits on posthumous donations."

What the... how does that work?

[theHandpuppet]

4. They don't care if it makes sense.

They want to lift limits on posthumous donations, saying that dead folks can't corrupt anyone. Well, they can't vote or make political contributions, either. Of course, the living can pick the pockets of the dead.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. If corporations are people, I wouldn't be surprised to find that the dead can vote.

[hootinholler]

6. Dead men can't speak

but their donations are pure freedom of speech?



IDGI either.

[theHandpuppet]

7. It's the Libertarian version of "Gaslight"

Don't think about it too long or they'll convince you that you're the one who doesn't make sense.

[KamaAina]

8. I was sure that was going to be The Onion.

[Blue Idaho]

9. Bones are people my friend...

"Posthumous Giving" just a small step away from "Posthumous Voting" - no wonder this country is so fucked up.

[Fawke Em]

10. Can't blame the Republicans for trying to hold onto their base.

As is well-documented, Democratic supporters are growing among the ranks of minorities, the young and women, while Republican supporters are dying off.

[Ganja Ninja]

11. It's like a bunch decaying skeletal hands reaching out from hell to fill the coffers of the GOP.

But why am I not surprised at this?

[Blue Owl]

13. It's just Man-Turtle's NecroPAC

n/t

[n2doc]

14. It's the new Republican plan for victory!

If they can get the Supreme Court to allow the dead to vote, then they will gain tens of millions of votes. All they have to do is explain to the dead confederates that the republicans are the same as the old democratic party of their time, and they will be golden. So long as they suppress northern dead votes, of course!

[RoccoR5955]

15. Computer error?

Yeah right, and pigs can fly!

If I had a penny for every time that someone screwed something up, or got caught at something, I would be able to buy Apple, lock, stock, and barrel.