Did you catch this item in the weekend news? Probably not. And that's because it involves just another Democrat fund-raising scandal. And who in the mainstream media wants to bother with such trivial, boring stuff as that?Well, Fox News bothers. And, as frustrated as the network makes me because of its' sleazy "entertainment" programming, I will give their news division credit for continuing to tell us the stories we don't find in many other places.
Here's the opening paragraphs:
An independent political group allied with Democrats and heavily bankrolled by billionaire George Soros has agreed to pay $775,000 to the Federal Election commission for violating campaign laws during the 2004 presidential campaign.
The civil penalty, announced Wednesday, is the third largest fine ever levied by the FEC.
The group, America Coming Together, was an influential player in the 2004 election cycle, spending millions of dollars to mobilize voters in support of Democrats in key states. The FEC found that ACT inappropriately used money raised outside federal election limits to help federal candidates. In a separate legal analysis, the FEC concluded that despite ACT's violations, the group did not coordinate its activities with the Democratic National Committee or the presidential campaign of Democratic nominee John Kerry. Such coordination is prohibited under federal law...
