Reply #6: Apparently he thinks because Bush bankrolls candidates in other countries' elections it's o.k. to do

[Judi Lynn]

it here. If I'm not mistaken, right-wingers set up a horrendous noise, scenery chewing when they imagined they had caught Buddhist nuns donating to a Democratic campaign. Remember this?

Archive for Friday, September 05, 1997
Buddhist Nuns Admit Misdeeds in Fund-Raising
By Marc Lacey
September 05, 1997 in print edition A-1

Two Buddhist nuns testified before a Senate panel Thursday that they destroyed documents and altered checks in an attempt to prevent the discovery of their temple’s bungled effort to funnel money to the Democratic National Committee during the 1996 presidential campaign.

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The nuns, who were given immunity from prosecution in exchange for their testimony, did nothing to link Vice President Al Gore, the featured speaker at the temple luncheon, to the fund-raising improprieties taking place behind the walls of the Hsi Lai Temple. But by detailing the temple’s illegal scheme to reimburse $65,000 to individual donors, the trio provided a firsthand glimpse at an event that has helped trigger the donations controversy and that has haunted Gore for nearly a year.

The nuns’ testimony about altered and destroyed evidence–not publicly known before–also served to portray the fund-raising aspects of the temple event less as a series of misunderstandings than as an effort to cover up violations of federal election law. And while Gore may have come through the day’s testimony with no new blows, the efforts of Democratic fund-raisers to raise questionable donations were made to look worse than ever.

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Sun, the temple attorney, cautioned senators not to tread so far in their inquiry into fund-raising improprieties that they make reckless claims that amount to Asian-bashing. He, for instance, argued that it was unfounded to suggest that temple devotees had been acting on behalf of any foreign government in making their contributions.

More:
http://articles.latimes.com/1997/sep/05/news/mn-29065