Let’s see…a few weeks ago, the Dems took some heat for certain irregularities regarding the nature of an odd “bundler” of campaign contributions. Now, it seems that it’s the GOP’s turn. Seen in the San Francisco Chronicle:
Until this week, Missouri attorney Charles “Chep” Hurth III was best known for a headline-grabbing incident a decade ago in which he bit a young female law student on the butt in a bar.
Now Hurth, the city attorney for New Haven, Mo. (population 1,800), is the agent for a deep-pocketed group that donated $175,000 to fund a Republican-backed effort that would reshape the landscape of presidential politics in California.[...]
It’s not the first time Hurth has been part of an effort that Democrats say has been aimed at changing the outcome of a presidential election. In 2004, he was the legal agent behind a GOP-funded group called Choices for America, which solicited donations from Republicans for another controversial signature drive - to help independent candidate Ralph Nader get on the presidential election ballot in key states, documents show.[...]
Democrats say Hurth violated the spirit if not the letter of California campaign finance laws because he would not disclose the source of his group’s funding.
“Under the law, you’re prohibited from making a contribution through an intermediary without disclosing the true donor,” said San Francisco attorney James Harrison, representing Californians for Fair Elections, a Democratic group opposing the measure. “That’s considered money laundering.”