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82Marine89
01-13-2008, 06:42 PM
SACRAMENTO – The state's political watchdog agency has imposed a $55,000 fine against the Latino Builders Association for 11 counts of laundering contributions to candidates running for office in Chula Vista, National City and San Diego.

The association's director, Jose Mireles, engineered a scheme to evade campaign laws by directing employees and business associates to make contributions to candidates that were later reimbursed by the Latino Builders Association, according to the Fair Political Practices Commission.

The commission, which enforces state contribution and disclosure laws, imposed the maximum fine of $5,000 for each of the counts Thursday.

“Concealing the true source of campaign contributions is one of the most egregious violations of the Political Reform Act,” said Roman Porter, spokesman for the Fair Political Practices Commission. “Citizens have a fundamental right to know who's engaged in political activity.”

The 11 contributions totaled $2,600 and were donated to eight candidates.

The San Diego-based association assists minority businesses in securing government contracts and makes sure that government agencies comply with minority hiring practices.

What happened? The state Fair Political Practices Commission concluded that the Latino Builders Association illegally laundered campaign funds to eight candidates from 2001 to 2004. The contributions totaled $2,600, and the organization was fined $55,000.

Investigators from the Fair Political Practices Commission found that at the time he was directing employees and business associates to donate to political candidates, Mireles made similar contributions of his own to the same candidates.

This was evidence that “he was aware of the prohibition of making contributions through other persons without disclosing the true source of the contribution,” the commission said in papers detailing the fine.

Further, the commission said Mireles must have been aware that Chula Vista and San Diego ban contributions from corporations such as the Latino Builders Association.

Democrat fraud story continued at LINK... (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080112-9999-1m12fine.html)


Who received the money? Former San Diego City Councilman Ralph Inzunza, DEMOCRAT former Assemblyman Juan Vargas of San Diego,DEMOCRAT former National City Mayor Nick Inzunza,DEMOCRAT former Chula Vista Mayor Steve Padilla,DEMOCRAT Chula Vista City Councilman Steve Castaneda,DEMOCRAT Chula Vista City Council candidate Bob Griego,DEMOCRAT Sweetwater Union High School District board member Greg Sandoval and San Ysidro School District trustee Raquel Márquez-Maden.
Mireles did not return a phone call seeking comment.

jimnyc
01-13-2008, 06:44 PM
For you "truth" seekers out there, more proof of corruption from the democrats!

82Marine89
01-13-2008, 06:50 PM
For you "truth" seekers out there, more proof of corruption from the democrats!

What's the over/under on *crickets*?

Trigg
01-13-2008, 06:57 PM
There they go again. Those nasty republicans planting evidence to make the latino groups look bad.

:tinfoil:

Dilloduck
01-13-2008, 06:58 PM
Republicans made the Latinos do it.

nevadamedic
01-13-2008, 07:45 PM
Republicans made the Latinos do it.

Nope, crime comes natural to Mexican's.

jimnyc
01-13-2008, 08:20 PM
The old depends wearing hag TM read this thread and moved on without replying, right back to her transparent and delusional rants about republicans in another thread. She cares more about conspiracies without proof against republicans than she does of proven corruption against democrats.

See what happens when you sit in your soiled adult diapers all day long? :laugh2:

typomaniac
01-13-2008, 08:23 PM
Both parties have corrupt candidates.

The amount of money discussed in the article that 82Rambowannabe posted, however, is peanuts compared to what the oil and insurance interests funnel into GOP campaigns...

82Marine89
01-13-2008, 08:29 PM
Both parties have corrupt candidates.

The amount of money discussed in the article that 82Rambowannabe posted, however, is peanuts compared to what the oil and insurance interests funnel into GOP campaigns...

Thanks for justifying corruption.

Hugh Lincoln
01-13-2008, 08:30 PM
Mexico pretty much wrote the book on political corruption. We import them by the million, we get this.

typomaniac
01-13-2008, 08:32 PM
Thanks for justifying corruption.

No government in the world is free of corruption or ever will be. That's not a justification; it's simply a statement of fact.

82Marine89
01-13-2008, 08:35 PM
No government in the world is free of corruption or ever will be. That's not a justification; it's simply a statement of fact.

So you accept it instead of trying to affect change?

typomaniac
01-13-2008, 09:41 PM
So you accept it instead of trying to affect change?

If I know that candidate X is corrupt and his opponent isn't, I vote for the opponent.

How about you?

Dilloduck
01-13-2008, 09:53 PM
If I know that candidate X is corrupt and his opponent isn't, I vote for the opponent.

How about you?

They're all bought off--now who do you vote for?

82Marine89
01-13-2008, 10:26 PM
They're all bought off--now who do you vote for?

Exactly.

BTW, this was a nice derailing of the thread. The topic is about democrats receiving money in violation of campaign finance laws.

typomaniac
01-14-2008, 12:42 AM
Exactly.

BTW, this was a nice derailing of the thread. The topic is about democrats receiving money in violation of campaign finance laws.

Then at least admit that republicans receive similar "donations," or you're just being disingenuous and therefore deserve to have the thread derailed. :poke:

82Marine89
01-14-2008, 12:43 AM
Then at least admit that republicans receive similar "donations," or you're just being disingenuous and therefore deserve to have the thread derailed. :poke:

Provide a link.

typomaniac
01-14-2008, 12:49 AM
Provide a link.

Sigh.

All right: Tom DeLay's PAC, Texans for a Republican Majority, laundered corporate money through the RNC (http://bluecatlair.blogspot.com/2005/10/gee-wally-did-tom-delay-really-launder.html).

And if that's not enough for you, Google "Jack Abramoff."

82Marine89
01-14-2008, 01:01 AM
Sigh.

All right: Tom DeLay's PAC, Texans for a Republican Majority, laundered corporate money through the RNC (http://bluecatlair.blogspot.com/2005/10/gee-wally-did-tom-delay-really-launder.html).

And if that's not enough for you, Google "Jack Abramoff."

OK, They're criminals as well. Fry 'em all. That still doesn't justify what this other group did.

waterrescuedude2000
01-14-2008, 12:11 PM
Nope, crime comes natural to Mexicans.

:lol::lol:

Trigg
01-14-2008, 12:38 PM
Both parties have corrupt candidates.
...

You need to inform liesmatter, she still thinks all dems are the good guys and only do the wrong thing when made to by an evil republican.

typomaniac
01-14-2008, 01:48 PM
You need to inform liesmatter, she still thinks all dems are the good guys and only do the wrong thing when made to by an evil republican.

Probably can't help you there; I'm not sure she even knows I'm alive. :dunno: