ND Democrats need to Send $10,000 to Diane Scruggs
The North Dakota Democrat Party obtains most of their money from out of state. But it is a sad day for one of their top patrons.
The party uses that money to make commercials telling listeners to call “out of state” people who point out the facts that North Dakota Senators Dorgan and Conrad received very large amounts of contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddi Mac and tell those “out of state” folk that that is not how we do politics in North Dakota.
Over 81 percent of contributions to the ND Democrats, of over $200 per year come from out of state. If you ask them how much of the contributions under $200 come from out of state they will likely tell you “most” of those contribution are from North Dakota citizens. If you press them for an exact number the will likely claim to be unable to tell you exactly. But, if you get at least millions of dollars from out of state folks you certainly use some of that money to maintain a database of contributors even if their contributions are less than $200. This is necessary so that those contributors can be mailed solicitations for more contributions. It seems highly likely that a few strokes of the keyboard would answer the question of how much out of state money comes from donors sending less than $200 per year. Would we then find that the North Dakota Democrats are funded, maybe 90, 95 percent or more from non-citizens of ND? Is that how we do politics in North Dakota?
Anyway, a problem has arisen in ND Democrat fund raising. One of their biggest individual donors is in the Federal Slammer. “Dickey” Richard Scruggs, tobacco attorney, major Democrat donor will likely be in jail until 2015 (no known cause/effect correlation to the leaving of the ND party chairman David Strauss).
In light of the departure of Chairman Strauss, perhaps, as did the Biden and McCain campaigns, the North Dakota Democrats should return all of the money Scruggs sent to North Dakota to Scrugg’s poor wife.
Until he gets out of the slammer and starts propping up ND politicians…….Dickey’s wife might need that money.
From the Party website:
ND Democratic-NPL
State Party Headquarters
Location: Kennedy Center
1902 East Divide Avenue
Bismarck, ND 58501
Directions: Corner of 19th Street and Divide Avenue
Phone: 701-255-0460
Fax: 701-255-7823
Email:people@demnpl.com
Office Hours: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm (Monday - Friday)
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