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I got this through Common Cause.   Haven't seen it elsewhere.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has amended several financial disclosure reports to include the employment of his wife, Virginia.

USA TODAY's Joan Biskupic reports that the move by Thomas follows complaints by Common Cause, a liberal advocacy group, that the justice has repeatedly failed to report the job information of his wife, a former GOP congressional aide who has long been active in conservative causes.

Thomas said the information, which is corrected for several years, was "inadvertently omitted." According to seven letters released by the Supreme Court public information office on Monday, Thomas sought to amend reports dating to 1989.

Virginia Thomas, who used to work in Congress for then-House majority leader Dick Armey, helped found the conservative group Liberty Central in fall 2009. Until December, she helped oversee Liberty Central's operations.

Liberty Central, which supports limited government, backed some Tea Party candidates in the 2010 midterm elections.

It was a mere $680,000.

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I got this through an equally unbiased source:

 

http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/01/25/call-for-an-audit-of-obamas-campaign-finances/

 

I think I'd rather have Clarence Thomas' wife bringing in some household money from a legitimate job than Obama bringing in hamas and other foreign money for his dirty commie tricks.

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I got this through an equally unbiased source:

 

Common Cause might have their bias but they do deal in facts.   You can find the same information elsewhere in numerous places.

 

http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/01/25/call-for-an-audit-of-obamas-campaign-finances/

 

The last time all this talk about foreign money came up it was easily explained as coming from American citizens living abroad.   There are millions outside the country at any one time.

 

The link you provided is the most shoddy bit of presentation I've seen in a long time.

 

First it says it is for the 200x cycle.   What does that mean?

Next it says he raised $109,107.   I think that's off by a factor of 1000 but check it out.

Then it says he spent 449% of it.   How?

Raised 0% from himself.   Wrong.

Raised 43% from individuals.

Raised 1% from PACs

Where did the other 56% come from?

 

Continuing:

 

If you go to the link Watchdog.net given in the text you get some more contradicting information.

It says he gave himself $23,798,300.   Where did he get that?

Spent 4.48865%

Raised from himself 0.00916531%

Raised from individuals 0.42517

 

If you believe the $23,000,000 and that it represents 0.0091% of his funds, then he raised a total of about $259,656,247,306.   That's half the Pentagon's budget.

 

And besides all that, it has the math backwards.   For example it divides the total raised by the amount raised by himself to get the percentage.    It should be the other way around.

 

I think I'd rather have Clarence Thomas' wife bringing in some household money from a legitimate job than Obama bringing in hamas and other foreign money for his dirty commie tricks.


A Supreme Court justice repeatedly breaking the law doesn't look for justice in this counrty.

Or the country either.

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