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Tonight: CBS Interviews Rep. Buyer On Iffy Foundation
Justin Elliott | November 11, 2009, 9:34AM
Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN)
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CBS Evening News is set to run a segment looking at the questionable foundation of Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN), and they've got a sit-down interview with the man himself.
Last night, CBS ran a promo of the "Follow the Money" segment with reporter Sharyl Attkisson interviewing a tense-looking Buyer. She asks, "What happened to the $25,000?"
Since early October, TPMmuckraker has been reporting on Buyer's Frontier Foundation, which collects big donations through golf junkets with lobbyists, but has given out nothing for its stated purposes of helping Indiana students with scholarships. Our full coverage is here.
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Obama1st
November 11, 2009 10:42 AM
He will admit to losing it in a tough skins games w/ other repukes!
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JohnW1141
November 11, 2009 12:04 PM
This is one of the new scams to be introduced; start a charity, a PAC, or some such thing, usually tax exempt, solicit contributions then spend 10% on charity, candidates or lobbying and 90% on administration and fund raising. This is also a good scam to create jobs for cronies and campaign workers.
While still a Repug Senator, Rick Santorum was running a charity and had one of the offices just outside Philly
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2505707
Tom DeLay and his wife also had a charity for children scam going. DeLay was accused of using it to get around the soft money regulations
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verite
November 11, 2009 2:34 PM
Let's hope CBS Evening News utilizes and sources your information on Rep Buyer so it gets wider attention. Great Job Justin!
and don't forget the PACs president/GOP Operative, Brenda Olthoff role in the Palm Beach ballot debacle:
Brenda Olthoff of Chicago, Ill., demonstrates outside of the Palm
Beach County Emergency Operations Center in West Palm Beach,
Friday, as the canvassing board continues to review questionable
ballots inside the center.
http://airwolf.lmtonline.com/news/archive/112500/pagea8.pdf
hat tip Mrs Panstreppon @ TPM Muck
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tiowally
November 11, 2009 4:24 PM
Does he mention how golf is hard work?
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Citoyen92
November 11, 2009 10:29 PM
The GOP has been laundering its dirty money through fake "charities" in the US for decades. This is the Nixonian legacy.
In Buyer's case, he, like many others, established foundations in 2003 and 2004, just prior to the GOP Convention in New York City. That Convention was a baccanal of unforeseen proportions. And it was these shady charities that funded 150% of it.
Only, Buyer had some cash left over, got lazy, and well, kept on slogging.
I suspect.
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wellstone
November 12, 2009 10:58 AM
Just take a look at Sean Hannity's Freedom Concert Foundation. Convicted felon Ollie North draws huge consulting fees out of it, and Hannity uses the round-the-country tours to do fundraisers and promote FOX and right-wing politicians in dead-Redstate venues. It is SUPPOSEDLY to give college scholarships to the kids of our fallen troops, but he has never had a single kid on his show, or any record of giving any scholarships out except to a wingnut college called Hillsdale in MI.
Someone should take a closer look at this shining example of Hannity's hypocrisy.
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