Yet here he is using the White house to promote a campaign event that is sponsored by his reelection committee, Obama for America 2012. (see 30sec. video)
As we can clearly see from the different landmarks in the room, the lamp for example, the room that the president is campaigning in is the same room in the White house that he gives his Weekly Addresses. (see pictures following)
Weekly Address from the White house (picture)
Campaign Fundraiser (picture)
In a very recent complaint filed before the F.E.C. the Ohio Democrat Party alleged that Josh Mandel and elected public official used resources of his state campaign and the resources of his state office to support his run for the U.S. Senate.
Complainant files this complaint under 2 U.S. C. §437g (a)(1) against Josh Mandel, Citizens for Josh Mandel, and Steven R. Cuckler, treasurer (“Respondents”). For apparent violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act (“FECA” or the “Act”). Several months ago, Mandel ran and was elected State Treasurer of Ohio. It now seems, however, that Mandel is using the resources of his state campaign and the resources of his state office to support a new run for the U.S. Senate. Federal law clearly prohibits this kind of conversion of state campaign and official resources, and the Federal Election Commission (“FEC”) should immediately open an investigation to determine the full scope of Mandel’s questionable practices. (source)
The president seems to have engaged in the very same violation that Josh Mandel is accused of by using the White house for his 2012 reelection bid.
However, this is not the first time that president Barry Hussein Soetoro has violated election law. In the 2010 midterm, Elections President Soetoro and Senator Patty Murray broke Washington state election laws by campaigning on the state funded University of Washington college campus.
Patty Murray's 2010 Midterm Elections campaign received scrutiny for violations of state and federal law, after a WorkSource employee used government resources to organize support for Murray’s campaign. Senator Patty Murray’s re-election campaign met with the state worker with the purpose of asking for campaign work to be done using state resources.[10] Using taxpayer money, WorkSource employee Sally Garcia asked veterans to contact Kerala Hise, either by telephone or at a pattymurray.com address, to get involved in a ”walk and knock" to remind people to vote for Murray’s re-election.[11]
President Obama and Patty Murray broke Washington state laws by campaigning on the state funded University of Washington college campus.[12] According to RCW 42.17.130, Use of public office or agency facilities in campaigns — Prohibition — Exceptions, "No elective official nor any employee of his [or her] office nor any person appointed to or employed by any public office or agency may use or authorize the use of any of the facilities of a public office or agency, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of assisting a campaign for election of any person to any office or for the promotion of or opposition to any ballot proposition." According to RCW 42.52.180, Use of public resources for political campaigns, "No state officer or state employee may use or authorize the use of facilities of an agency, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of assisting a campaign for election of a person to an office or for the promotion of or opposition to a ballot proposition. Knowing acquiescence by a person with authority to direct, control, or influence the actions of the state officer or state employee using public resources in violation of this section constitutes a violation of this section." (see source)
As the president and the vice president would say, this is a really “big deal.” This president is presently conducting two illegal wars, Libya and Yemen without fulfilling the constitutional requirement to get Congressional authority, something that George W. Bush did prior to engaging in Iraq and Afghanistan.
With this apparent violation of the F.E.C., the president seems to be signaling that he doesn’t intend to play by the rules anytime soon.
All things considered, there is emerging a continued pattern of lawlessness from this White house. If the video is proven authentic and if the president is found to be violation of F.E.C. regulations he should be made to suffer the penalties and fines afforded for such violators.
If the president isn’t made to obey the law in this matter, I’m afraid sometime in the near future we will see once again the New Black Panthers and ACORN helping in the reelection effort of President Soetoro.
Who’s going to stop that, AG Eric Holder?
