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By Matthew Mosk The number of fake names attached to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign contributions continues to inch up as news outlets and political researchers page through thousands of pages of donor listings. Turns out, they're not that hard to come by. New discoveries from a cursory review of ...
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Amanda Carpenter: Matthew Mosk At It Again
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... but after I checked it out it turned out three out of four of them never wrote checks to his campaign. Whoops. He still appears to have a job though and now he's defending Barack Obama's fake and illegal foreign donors. He wants you to think this is commonplace. "Campaign finance experts say the notion that someone would donate money under a fake name is not as surprising as it might seem.," he writes. "Some donors don't want to be identified to avoid getting inundated with future requests. Others are pranksters." An AP story found Obama accepted donations from "at ...
Good Ol' Edrty Eddty of Poiuyttrrewe / Qwertyuio
Political Punch —
... Good Ol' Edrty Eddty of Poiuyttrrewe / Qwertyuio October 11, 2008 11:56 AM The Washington Post's Matthew Mosk takes a look at some of those iffy internet low-dollar Obama donors and wonders how they escaped notice of the campaign."New discoveries from a cursory review of the listings include Edrty Eddty, who donated $250 in July 2008 and Es Esh, who gave $325 in July. Esh hailed from this unusual address: 'fhdfhdfh, Erial, NJ 08081' Eddty listed his, or perhaps her, employer as 'Poiuyttrrewe / Qwertyuio' -- the letters, more or less in order, found on the top line of ...
Obama Supporters are an E-clectic Bunch
Patterico's Pontifications —
[Guest post by DRJ]
Matthew Mosk at the Washington Post blog The Trail introduces us to Obama supporters Edrty Eddty and Es Esh:
“The number of fake names attached to Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign contributions continues to inch up as news outlets and political researchers page through thousands of pages of donor listings.
Turns out, they’re not that hard to come by. New discoveries from a cursory review of the listings include Edrty Eddty, who donated $250 in July 2008 and Es Esh, who gave $325 in July. ...
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