RNC turns up heat on Obama

October 6, 5:48 PMAtlanta Politics ExaminerEric Ture Muhammad

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Republican National Committee goes on offensive. GOP accuses the Obama for America campaign of finance irregularities, strange bedfellows and inappropriate donor support.
 

"We believe Obama for America has knowingly accepted excessive contributions and donations from foreign nationals, and has failed to take the necessary remedial action required by law," charged RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross in  statement released from its Washington, DC headquarters. " We see this as a wide-scale problem and it appears the Obama campaign may be in substantial noncompliance with federal campaign finance laws."

Cairncross continued stating the Illinois senator "broke his word to the American people and refused to accept public financing, and now his campaign appears to be disregarding the rules and laws that govern federal campaigns. [Obama] routinely mentions the word 'change' on the campaign trail, yet it seems the only changes he supports are ones that personally benefit his own political aspirations," he said. 

The Obama camp has called this and other assertions made this past week against their candidate a desperate attempt at distracting the American public from McCain failures.

"Sen. McCain and his operatives are gambling that they can distract you with smears rather than talk to you about substance. They'd rather try to tear our campaign down than lift this country up," Obama said at an event in Asheville, North Carolina on Sunday. "That's what you do when you're out of touch, out of ideas, and running out of time," he said.

In addition, the McCain camp charges that Obama longtime supporter Allison Davis of the development company, The Davis Group and Obama campaign aide Valerie Jarrett are both tied to a Chicago housing project the democratic hopeful wrote a letter to the Bush administration for last year seeking a multi million-dollar federal grant.

Obama aides said Mr. Obama created no conflict of interest in sending the letter. They said, and city housing authorities confirmed, that HUD grant money won't go to Mr. Davis or his company.