Whalen: Dems exonerated

Submitted by bniolet on October 30, 2009 - 11:44am.
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N.C. Democratic Party Executive Director Andrew Whalen issued a statement after the State Board of Elections ruling.

The board found that former Gov. Mike Easley's campaign solicited contributions for the party that they promised would go to the Easley campaign.

Today, in a unanimous vote, the State Board of Elections fully exonerated the North Carolina Democratic Party of any violations of election law.

Evidence presented during the hearing indicated that the Easley Committee solicited contributions for the Party from two donors, indicating to the donors that those contributions would be used on behalf of the Easley Committee.

It was undisputed that the Party did not participate in the solicitations and had no knowledge of the manner in which the solicitations were made. The SBOE did order the Party to disgorge $9,000 representing the two contributions.

The North Carolina Democratic Party cooperated fully with the investigation, providing numerous documents and testimony, and is pleased that the Board carefully examined the evidence and chose to dismiss the complaint filed against the Party.

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Re: Whalen: Dems exonerated

Submitted by redriver on November 2, 2009 - 5:10am.

This is typical of the democratic party, deny any wrong until a judge tells you different. They are so hung up on this power thing that they can not tell what is right or wrong any more. I have been a democrat for over 40 years and these people are not true democrats, in fact the democrat party is hardly a party anymore but rather like the mob.

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Re: Whalen: Dems exonerated

Submitted by PaulTerrell on October 30, 2009 - 8:37pm.

This guy is out of touch with reality. This tells everyone that the Democratic Party is okay with illegal funneling of campaign contributions.

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Re: Whalen: Dems exonerated

Submitted by GiggleBox on October 30, 2009 - 4:52pm.

Thanks!

Headline still reads what it does.

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Re: Whalen: Dems exonerated

Submitted by Kingixolib on October 30, 2009 - 4:46pm.

Nice try, but I think that the Democratic party trying to disassociate itself from corruption in North Carolina is like trying to say that there are two different colors of red in a ketchup bottle.

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Re: Whalen: Dems exonerated

Submitted by GiggleBox on October 30, 2009 - 4:44pm.

Ah, ha ha HA, ha ha HA, Ha.

Try again people that can't win an election in North Carolina to save their angry, angry life.

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Re: Whalen: Dems exonerated

Submitted by captsfufp on October 30, 2009 - 4:02pm.

Not defending one way or the other...but the fine was not against NCDP per se but since the Easley campaign apparently "tainted" the funds by soliciting donors to give to the NCDP as a round-about way to give to the Easley campaign, there was no fine against anything the NCDP did, but since they had the "tainted" funds, then they had to give them up.

Not saying anything about any future revelations, but think Mr. Whalen's statement passes the "straight face" test.

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Re: Whalen: Dems exonerated

Submitted by TarDawg74 on October 30, 2009 - 2:54pm.

Who does this clown thing he is kidding?

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Funny looking exoneration

Submitted by PoliticalJunkie on October 30, 2009 - 1:21pm.

Since when is a $9000 fine an exoneration?

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Re: Whalen: Dems exonerated

Submitted by mrclean on October 30, 2009 - 12:11pm.

Mr. Whalen apparently likes to spin.Once the investigation gets in full swing look for the fur to fly over the donations from wealthy Easley supporters to the NCDP.

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