Comments on: Gerry Connolly Gets Illegal Corporate Campaign Support

By: Dave in PWC

Dave in PWC — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:40:45 +0000

Well how the they get the company emails if it was sent to “teammates”? Someone employed by SAIC had to allow the mass mailing of the email if that’s what it was.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:05:23 +0000

The funny part about the lefty bloggers questioning ethics is how some of them so readily support Hillary Clinton. That and how some of them voted for this same Gerry Connolly as recently as November 2007. I’m not mentioning any names, of course.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:07:42 +0000

A former EVP - now called a consulting employee - sending out to the employees is questionable. I’m not sure it was illegal. But it was definitely poor, poor judgment and raised an appearance of impropriety.

A copy of the e-mail is at R[aising] K[aine]. (Not sure what to call that blog anymore.) It was addressed to “Fellow SAIC teammates.” The format of the e-mail suggests (albeit not definitively) that it was sent from an SAIC address, since only the sender’s name shows up on the FROM. It was a FROM/TO blind format, though, so we can’t be sure without the “stuff” in the headers.

Even if it ain’t illegal, it stinks.

By: MP Resident

MP Resident — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:05:08 +0000

“SAIC, the employer, did not send out the email”

One of their high-level employees did, presumably from an SAIC email address.

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:05:41 +0000

SAIC, the employer, did not send out the email, let’s get the facts correct and not continually distort things. Although, probably legal what a consultant to SAIC did, still is an appearance of something amiss.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:24:02 +0000

I am crossing over to vote against Gerry on June 10. He is bad news for everyone, Republican or Democrat. I don’t like to vote in Democrat primaries, but this guy is SO bad that I will do it.

By: CitizenofManassas

CitizenofManassas — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:30:58 +0000

Now we know why he supports illegals…. he has a soft spot for fellow criminals.

By: me-n-u

me-n-u — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:58:53 +0000

Ya gotta see the spin in this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN1kp1ggWyM&eurl=http://www.mexica-movement.org/

By: anon

anon — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:50:48 +0000

OC is a good idea to keep Gerry out.

By: Riley

Riley — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:10:58 +0000

I second what the attorney, Allison Hayward, says in the article. This isn’t a cut and dried case of being a violation, although it definitley straddles the line. The solicitation would comply with FEC guidelines for a solicitation to contribute to SAIC’s PAC — only went to management, stockholders and their families and was not coercive. So long as this was not done on behalf of the corporation (even if it was done by a former high ranking official who is now a consultant), this probably will not rise to the level of a campaign finance violation. As big a sleaze as I think that Connolly is, I’d have a hard time finding an actual violation of law here.

By: k. o'toole

k. o'toole — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:25:13 +0000

With this publicity, maybe cross-over voters (Opn. Chaos) won’t be necessary in the June Dem. primary.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:58:17 +0000

First developers, now Government contractors. At least he knows where the money is.

By: Lefty

Lefty — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:57:28 +0000

I think Chris Royce works for SAIC. Maybe he has some enlightenment on this issue. Another interesting question for government auditors is how this expenditure by SAIC was accounted for. I’d like to know if it was included in overhead and charged to government contracts.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:51:35 +0000

Connolly is bad news. One comment: open primary on June 10.

By: 999

999 — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:24:23 +0000

I though Connolly was running for the House rather than the Senate???

[Ed note: yep, I mis-identified what he was running for. Thanks for pointing it out. The post has been corrected.]