PASSING THE HAT FOR HATCH
The picture above was taken at Hatch's announcement yesterday and shows someone collecting donations for Hatch's campaign.
While "passing the hat" for contributions is not illegal, it is a violation of Minnesota Campaign Finance Laws to accept an anonymous contribution of more $20.
"An anonymous contribution of more than $20. An anonymous contribution is one for which the name and full address of the contributor cannot be determined.
You must forward the entire anonymous contribution to the Board within 14 days for deposit in the general account of the State Elections Campaign Fund." Source: Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board.
If anyone putting more than $20 in the hat didn't provide their name and full address, then the contributions must be returned.
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Prediction: hats being passed around as fund raisers will be seen more frequently than ever at DFL events.
Why?
There is no way to kno if people dropped more than $20. I bet that even if there were $50s & $100s in the hats the campaign would not forward them. How would they get caught?
Consider this tactic the loophole that allows larger than $20 anonymous contributions. While you're at it, consider that in the future there will be hats passed around so that people can get around their own personal limits. All they have to do is drop $20s into the hat "anonymously" and, voila, they can easily contribute more than any campaign limits.
I think you're going a little overboard here with the conspiracy theory.
Perhaps you would consider screaming about something other than a hat that appears to have something sticking partially out of it.
Perhaps the fact that he's using a damn top hat. I would think a regular old twins hate would have been enough to circumvent election laws.
*twins hat*. No hate for the Twins.
If I was a GOPer on here, I'd be very quiet about ways to cheat the campaign finance regulations. Afterall, they have been hit with the biggest fine in state history, and a more indictments in the last four years than the DFL in the previous ten.
Shhhhhh! Be wary wary quiet, you don't want to wattle that cage.
Clearly no one posting here has any sense of campaign finance law. Campaigns are required to account for all of their money. While they only publicly report those that contribute over $100, they need to show how many donors they have and what the total raised is from small donors. If people started dropping large contributions in hats it would throw off all their records. It is really more troublesome than its worth.
What you should be worried about are the unlimited soft money contributions continuing to flow into state party's accounts. Pawlenty, two summers ago, was continually rocked by scandel after scandel relaiting to his and the GOP's finance practices. Numerous aides and I believe his campaign treasurer have been investigated and/or indicted in this.
All this without even having to mention Tom DeLay's illegal fundraising that helped 'elect' GOP members of Congress in re-districted Texas.
It's funny when someone talks about how it woudl se so hard to track the cash that it wouldn't be worth it.
It's cash you moron!
I seem to remember a lot of republicans NOT being convicted of charges. They do seem to be a target for liberal attorneys.
"A good district attorney can indict a ham sandwich if he wants to,"
Nationally the democrats seem to be long on indictments of Republicans but very short on convictions.
I guess if ya cant beat 'em in the arena of ideas, might as well smear them using the lefty prosecutors.
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