An Open Letter To Hal Rogers
Thursday, June 08, 2006
An Open Letter To Hal Rogers
Hello, Hal Rogers.
I had challenged you to a debate in a previous open letter to you on this web site, but you never replied. Like I say, I'd be glad to debate you any normal waking hours time, any place in the Fifth Kentucky District for the U.S. House or in Lexington, Kentucky.
What I wanted to talk with you about tonight is illegal campaign contributions from corporations to your campaign account. According to 2 United States Code Section 441(b), it is "unlawful . . . for any corporation whatever . . . to make a contribution or expenditure in connection with any election at which . . . a Senator or Representative in . . .Congress are to be voted for, . . . or for any candidate, political committee, or other person knowingly to accept or receive any contribution prohibited by this section, or any officer or any director of any corporation . . . to consent to any contribution or expenditure by the corporation . . . prohibited by this section."
Hal Rogers, in your Fourth Quarter 2005 campaign report, HAL ROGERS FOR CONGRESS received a one thousand dollar ($1,000.00) contribution from Bell Engineering, Inc. of Lexington, Kentucky; received a four thousand two hundred dollar ($4,200.00) contribution from Image Entry, Inc. of Dallas, Texas; and received a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) contribution from Adobe Palm LLC of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Hello. "Inc." means it is a corporation. "LLC" means it is a corporation. I don't intend to report this to the FEC until you have had a chance to refund these political campaign contributions to these corporations, and have notified me of it. I notice from your campaign report that you have not been able to get any ten dollar and twenty dollar campaign contributions from the coal miners, loggers, housewives, and other working people of our district. You have gotten a lot of $4,200.00 contributions and some $5,000.00 contributions from corporation Chief Executive Officers and their housewives. Please keep it legal. Please advise me when you have refunded these corporations their money, and if it is done quickly, I plan to take no further action about it. Kenneth Stepp, Democratic Candidate for KY-5 U.S. House of Representatives.
posted by Kenneth Stepp
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