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Doolittle: Under Investigation and in The Red
Hard times. From The Sacramento Bee:
Rep. John Doolittle's cachet with big Washington, D.C., campaign financiers seems to have plummeted in the aftermath of the FBI's April 13 raid on his Oakton, Va., house, and the eight-term Roseville Republican heads toward the 2008 election season with his campaign still in debt and receipts on the decline.Meanwhile, the campaign of Democrat Charlie Brown, who came within 3 points of defeating Doolittle in November, is gaining steam. Brown's campaign raised almost twice as much as Doolittle's in the last three months and ended the six-month mark with a net cash balance of $251,000. Doolittle posted $32,250 in debts.
Doolittle's biggest expense during the three-month period was $50,000 in fundraising payments to Sierra Dominion Financial Solutions, a company owned by his wife and operated out of the couple's house....
Even with the hefty campaign payments to Julie Doolittle's company, Sierra Dominion still was owed more than $76,000 in commissions from the 2006 race.
The Doolittle campaign's second largest expense was $30,000 to defense attorney David Barger's law office, bringing the campaign's attorney's fees for defending the congressman in the last year to more than $130,000.
Josh
Zachary
Perhaps it's time for another Legal Defense Fund?
July 16, 2007 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am a transgendered bi-sexual troll-aholic, obsessed with Cindy Sheehan. AA won't have me. The Republicans won't pay me. And I'd spend more time with my family - but Cindy is running - AWAY from me.
My only life is here - on the blogs - where I weep and gnash my teeth. Republicans grow rich, but won't even throw me a bone: My work goes unappreciated even by them! I am a worm - and no man. Oh, god, I hate myself!
But, boy do I love being name-jacked!
July 16, 2007 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anyone know anything about the unusual name of Julie's company, "Sierra Dominion"? It always gets my attention when Republicans associate themselves with the word "dominion."
July 16, 2007 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
(Ex Congressman, now NV Governor) Jim Gibbons' wife has a similar fundraising company called Sierra Nevada.
The Gibbons' and the Doolittles are friends.
I've made this observation many times, but can find no evidence of them working together.
July 16, 2007 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
To follow onto my comments above...
Doolittles' is Sierra Dominion (they live in Oakton, VA - and Virginia is known as the "Old Dominion")
Gibbons' is Sierra Nevada (Gibbons represented and now live in Nevada)
As for Sierra, I read that the couples used to vacation together at Lake Tahoe. There is a resort called "Sierra-At-Tahoe" there -- although maybe they also vacationed together in the Sierras? Who knows, but definitely suspicious.
July 16, 2007 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tahoe. Do they have Aspens? Don't Aspens turn together?
July 16, 2007 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I had my facts slightly askew.
Dawn Gibbons did contracting work for Sierra Nevada. Sierra Nevada is a Reno, NV-based defense contractor:
http://politics.lasvegassun.com/2007/04/first_lady_does.html
Still, we have an interesting confluence of Sierras.
July 16, 2007 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
California is a community property state. Every asset owned by each of a married couple is owned by the other also. So, Doolittle paying his wife to collect money for him is actually skimming the money collected for his own personal use. At best this is fraud. And, his wife's "company" has no employees unless they are very recent hires, and she has no business license. The "company" itself is a fraud.
July 16, 2007 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
@Hoppy:
Sierra Dominion is incoporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The company is still listed as "active" according to the Virginia Corporations Counsel:
http://www.scc.virginia.gov/division/clk/diracc.htm
The company is registered from their Oakton, VA home.
What sort of "home" do they have in California?
July 16, 2007 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a crook. His logic is He's in campaign debt from paying huge fees to his wife's company run out of his bedroom which I'm sure he will claim he receives no benefit from. Corruption will out sooner or later. Meanwhile he tries to convince us his gains are really debts. No wonder donors are ignoring him...he's a loser now.
July 16, 2007 6:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Are you allowed to use campaign funds for personal legal defense costs?
July 17, 2007 3:09 AM | Reply | Permalink