[EL] Sandy Relief

[John Tanner]

Divert donations from the intended purpose of the donors without asking?
Tacky.  It would be better for Obama and Romney to make a joint appeal for
donations, much as Clinton and Bush pere have done --  much as I would love
an end to their campaign commercials.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Josh Douglas <joshuadouglas at uky.edu>wrote:

> I've responded to Jacob off-list, but I thought all would want to know
> that Section 439a of the FECA allows candidates to donate funds to "an
> organization described in section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of
> 1986," which would include a charitable organization.  I'm writing a post
> on various compromises the candidate could make in the wake of Hurricane
> Sandy, including this idea, which should be available later today.
>
> Josh
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> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Jacob Soboroff <jacob at whytuesday.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi all, writing you with my HuffPost Live hat on this morning.
>>
>> Does anyone know if the campaigns could legally give their remaining war
>> chests towards Sandy relief?
>>
>> Looking to potentially build a segment around this idea for later today
>> or tomorrow and looking for guests and takes.
>>
>> Please reply to my HuffPost e-mail address, cc'ed here.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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