Disclosure Advocates, Take Note - UPDATED
Original post has been removed.
Wow… a fabulous source told me a very interesting story that I repeated here. A commenter did some research and revealed that the story was not true. I checked with my source who said that the story was a well-worn chestnut and who was very surprised to find also that the story could not be verified.
Since the basis of the post was a story that was not true, I’ll remove the story and am noting the error for anyone who may have seen it. In time I may delete the post entirely, but I wanted to be sure to give people an opportunity to see the correction here. My apologies all around… I always want to provide the best information available and am eager to correct the record on this occasion.
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Interesting. But…
Here’s a Siegelman report randomly selected from 2002 http://arc-sos.state.al.us/CGI/SOSELC92.MBR/VIEWDOC
It has the contributions listed by date.
Here’s one randomly selected from 1998 - http://arc-sos.state.al.us/CGI/SOSELC92.MBR/VIEWDOC
It has the contributions ordered alphabetically.
Here’s one from 1994 - http://arc-sos.state.al.us/CGI/SOSELC92.MBR/VIEWDOC
Ordered alphabetically again.
And just in case it was the 2006 reports that were referenced…http://arc-sos.state.al.us/CGI/SOSELC92.MBR/VIEWDOC
Ordered by date again.
Danny, looks like you got had. And while you run the best thing currently going, a few minutes of research could have resolved this.
Comment by TruthTeller — January 18, 2008 @ 11:47 am
Danny - this sort of thing happens to the best of us, and you have the best (and most reliable) blog on Alabama politics. Your strong credibility is demonstrated by your swift response on this.
Comment by Anonymous — January 18, 2008 @ 12:39 pm
I don’t know what the original post said, but if you look at Drayton Nabers’ reports from last year, there was clearly a concerted effort to scramble his donors (a look at the 45-day general election report clearly shows that large PAC contributions from June were spread throughout the report to hide the fact that he had nearly bottomed out on funds at some point in August/September). A more thorough scrambling was carried out on the 10-day report.
Comment by another — January 18, 2008 @ 12:56 pm
Good followup, Danny.
Comment by Anonymous — January 18, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
Republicans raise money, Turnham raises his voice.
Comment by Anonymous — January 18, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
Comment #5 looks like it was meant for another post. Thank you, anonymous commenters #2 and #4, you were kind. Very interesting comment in #3…
Comment by Danny — January 18, 2008 @ 10:18 pm