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t1_iu96lf5 wrote

Reply to comment by in ‘So blatantly illegal’: Liam Madden admits to funneling money through family to inflate campaign finance numbers by

Yeah I did. Both are campaign finance violations. Did you read the New York Times article? Giving favors and state money to developers in exchange for campaign donations is probably worse than illegally throwing your own money at a race that you can’t win.

Don’t pretend like both parties don’t break campaign finance laws.

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t1_iu97d3f wrote

Clerical error. They had reported the payments in other areas. It was a mistake and corrected. What Madden did was intentional.

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t1_iu98262 wrote

Okay great. Both parties commit campaign finance violations. To attribute it to one party is pretty stupid. Not that hard to follow.

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t1_iu9ajwg wrote

I’m not saying one does and one doesn’t. I’m saying these two instances are not the same. Yes they fall under the same law but they are very different.

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t1_iu9byq8 wrote

The post I replied to said “It’s always GOP scumbag”.

It should be pretty agreeable that both parties commit campaign finance violations but I guess we can’t even do that.

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t1_iu9caqq wrote

Again, I’m not disagreeing that both parties commit campaign finance fraud. What I’m saying is that the way in which the two parties did so as outlined in the articles is not the same.

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t1_iu9de8r wrote

Correct. Just like the linked story from seven days where the lt gov from NY was arrested for taking state money and funneling it to a developer for campaign donations. It happens in all magnitudes for both parties.

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