(gay basher) Ronald A. Crews criticized on fed'l campaign payments

[TaleWgnDg]

"Candidate Criticized on Pay Arrangements
(Massachusetts) Democrats to File (FEC) Finance Complaint

"Boston Globe (newspaper) Saturday October 2, 2004
by Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff

"(Massachusetts) Republican congressional candidate Ronald A. Crews (ex-Georgia legislator, evangelical-fundamentalist preacher, ex-head of gay-bashing national and "Massachusetts Family Institute") has been communing with voters in the Third (Massachusetts) Congressional District since May in a bid to unseat U.S. Representative James P. McGovern (Democrat) of Worcester, but (Crews) also been communing with God on behalf of a 20-employee gravel firm in Douglas(, Massachusetts).

"For that, he receives $1,200 a month.

"Pyne Sand & Stone, a (gravel) company owned by a Crews campaign donor, hired him as a corporate chaplain just days after Crews declared his candidacy for Congress in May.

(snip)

"But what Pyne describes as a legitimate business deal, the state Democratic Party and the McGovern campaign see as an end run around federal campaign finance laws.

"Jim Roosevelt, the (Democratic) party's chief legal counsel, said this week that the party will file a formal complaint against Crews with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in the next week. As Roosevelt sees it, the chaplaincy is a no-work facade intended to prop up Crews, and a clear violation of federal laws that limit individual donations to $1,000 a year, and that bar corporation donations.

(snip)

"Crews is also drawing a $3,000-a-month retainer from the Massachusetts Family Institute, where he served as chief executive prior to running for Congress."

(snip)

"According to the Code of Federal Regulations (for the FEC) and recent advisory opinions (issued) from the Federal Election Commission (FEC), congressional candidates may work as consultants, but the work must be 'genuinely independent of the candidacy,' 'exclusively in consideration of services provided' by the candidate, and cannot 'exceed the amount of compensation which would be paid to' similarly employed individuals."

(snip)

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/10/02/candidate_criticized_on_pay_arrangement/
(as last visited Saturday, October 2, 2004; the BosGlobe allows access to its online newspaper for approximately 2 days to non-hardcopy subscribers)

(The Boston Globe newspaper, City & Region, Section B
front page Section B, page B-1, Saturday, October 2, 2004)

[sallyseven]

1. This guy is suppose to be such a

good christen. He is one step up from being a baboon. He is a little loopy and looks like his father and mother were cousins. I am involved with the McGovern campaign and work every day to make sure that he will win. Crews is a hater. I don't even think that he believes what he says. It is the lazy way to make a buck.

[TaleWgnDg]

2. oh, wow! you go!

great work re McGovern campaign. And let's hope that the FEC will finally wake up and do something u/ this Bush Administration thumb but I strongly doubt it. I expect that the Dems will try to jump into federal court with its complaint against Ronald A. Crews.

Let's start a grassroots organization uuummmmmmmm we could call it . . . "Kick Crews Back to Georgia" or some such thing . . . LOL

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President Bush said freedom is a gift from
the Almighty, and we have been called by
God to use our military power to spread
freedom throughout the world. Then he
called that Sadr guy in Iraq a religious
nutcase." — G.W. Bush, as quoted by
Jay Leno.
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[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. He's a carpetbagger. Everyone should keep pointing that out.

Us massholes are a parochial bunch.

[Rockholm]

4. Crews is a CLOSET QUEEN.