{"id":1561,"date":"2004-04-09T13:05:31","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T18:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1561.html"},"modified":"2004-04-09T13:05:31","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T18:05:31","slug":"nrcc-busted-for-illegal-soft-money-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/nrcc-busted-for-illegal-soft-money-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"NRCC busted for illegal &#8216;soft money&#8217; donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/001421.html\">my recent list<\/a> of Republican controversies that have been the subject of formal investigations, I found number 19 this afternoon. (Just one more for the big two-oh!)<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Election Commission completed an investigation into the National Republican Congressional Committee (the GOP version of the DCCC) and determined that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/politics\/wire\/sns-ap-fec-house-republicans,1,4194716.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines\">the GOP illegally transferred donations<\/a> to outside independent groups for assistance in the 2000 campaign. The NRCC has been fined $280,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Federal Election Commission says the NRCC transferred $500,000 in soft money to the U.S. Family Network during the primary season in 1999 to fund political ads that the NRCC should have paid for with a mix of soft money &#8212; unlimited donations from companies and others &#8212; and hard money, limited contributions from individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Family Network sent $300,000 to another group, Americans for Economic Growth. AEG then spent about $260,000 to run radio ads in fall 1999 accusing Democrats of planning to raid the Social Security fund and use it on other programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not bad enough the Republicans have to lie about the Dem agenda; they have to break federal law to do it. So much for the law-and-order party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who enjoyed my recent list of Republican controversies that have been the subject of formal investigations, I found number 19 this afternoon. (Just one more for the big two-oh!) The Federal Election Commission completed an investigation into the National Republican Congressional Committee (the GOP version of the DCCC) and determined that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}