WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democratic National Committee is now operating under Barack Obama's fundraising rules.
The DNC today returned about $100,000 in money from lobbyists and political action committees.
A party official says the donations were already "in the pipeline" when Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, instituted the standards for the committee.
Obama imposed the rules to avoid a conflict with his own ban on money from federal lobbyists and PACs.
Republican John McCain does accept money from lobbyists and PACs as does the Republican National Committee and other party committees.
Obama's ban does not apply to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee nor to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Now that is pure class. Maybe we can finally get rid of Redneck Rule and the stigmata of intelligence. We can have a polite, intelligent, thinking society!
Ok, I think I went a bit overboard. But at least they are acting in an honorable fashion.
Holden_Caulfield
Ann Arbor, MI
April 2004
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