Schieffer Unimpressed with Axelrod's Claims
Politico reports:
The White House continued its assault on Republican campaign spending Sunday, as senior adviser David Axelrod accused Karl Rove and the Chamber of Commerce of allowing foreign money to fund American campaigns.
But when asked by Bob Schieffer, host of CBS's "Face the Nation," for proof that the foreign funds were "anything other than peanuts," Axerod said: “Do you have any evidence that it’s NOT, Bob? The fact is that the Chamber [of Commerce] has asserted that, but they won’t release any information about where their campaign money is coming from.”
“Is that the best you can do?” Schieffer asked in response.
The exchange was the latest volley over Republican campaign spending in a time of unrestricted limits. Two groups that Rove and Ed Gillespie have assisted - American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS - have been the focus of the Democratic line of attack.
"Ed Gillespie and Karl Rove run one of them – tens of millions of dollars from undisclosed donors, under benign names like the American Crossroads fund," Axelrod said. "Why not simply disclose where this money is coming from? And then all of these questions’ll be answered. …These interest groups … are now the major force in some of these campaigns …This issue of this special-interest spending is VERY important. It’s never happened before, that organizations are spending this kind of money.”
Neither Rove nor Gillespie is on the board or staff of American Crossroads or Crossroads GPS. The two helped conceive the groups and have encouraged donations. Rove and Gillespie are not compensated by the groups, and are not on the incorporating documents.
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