by Ed Naile
The other day, the NH Attorney General’s Office whitewashed the voter fraud committed by non-resident voters at State Senator Martha Fuller Clark’s flophouse mansion in Portsmouth.
The AG’s whitewash included some new information we knew about already.
Clark let Arkansas Attorney Bryan Gregory Griffith stay and campaign from her single family/historic district mansion – free of rent. This free rent establishes residency/domicile according to the NH AG.
Arkansas Attorney Griffith received seven months free rent in Portsmouth to campaign for Obama with the famous Obama Voter List all Democrats want to get their hands on.
Nothing is free in this world except worn out tires and kittens.
So how does this free rent for Griffith and another Obama guy named Flynn stack up to our campaign laws?
Section 664:4
664:4 Prohibited Political Contributions. –
No contribution, whether tangible or intangible, shall be made to a candidate, a political committee, or political party, or in behalf of a candidate or political committee or political party, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of promoting the success or defeat of any candidate or political party at any state primary or general election:
I. [Repealed.]
II. By any partnership as such or by any partner acting in behalf of such partnership.
III. By any labor union or group of labor unions, or by any officer, director, executive, agent or employee acting in behalf of such union or group of unions; or by any organization representing or affiliated with any such union or group of unions, or by any officer, director, executive, agent or employee acting in behalf of such organization.
IV. [Repealed.]
V. By any person (1) if in excess of $5,000 in value, except for contributions made by a candidate in behalf of his own candidacy, or if in excess of $1,000 in value by any person or by any political committee to a candidate or a political committee working on behalf of a candidate who does not voluntarily agree to limit his campaign expenditures and those expenditures made on his behalf as provided in RSA 664:5-a, (2) if made anonymously or under a name not that of the donor, (3) if made in the guise of a loan, (4) if any other manner concealed, (5) if made without the knowledge and written consent of the candidate or his fiscal agent, a political committee or its treasurer, or not to any one of the same.
Source. 1979, 436:1. 1983, 415:1. 1991, 387:13, 14, eff. July 2, 1991. 2011, 150:7, V, eff. Aug. 7, 2011.
I wonder?
Arkansas has a state income tax. Do you think Arkansas Attorney Bryan Gregory Griffith paid his 2012 taxes to Arkansas with the seven months he was domiciled in NH deducted?????
All he has to do is use his New Hampshire Attorney General’s get out of jail free investigation card to save big on his Arkansas taxes.
That is how intra-state domicile “laws” work, right?