Dianne Feinstein, Other Dems, ‘Wiped Out’ by Theft of Campaign Cash
**Written by Doug Powers
You can rest easier knowing that these are some of the same people who have assured America they’ve created an ironclad system to responsibly safeguard trillions of taxpayer dollars.
From Fox News:
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the latest lawmaker claiming to have been looted of campaign cash by a Democratic treasurer who’s been likened to Bernie Madoff.
Feinstein’s campaign, which had a cash balance of $5 million on June 30, believes it suffered losses but does not know how extensive they were, according to campaign adviser Bill Carrick.
The campaign is blaming Kinde Durkee, who managed the senator’s finances for years along with the accounts of several other top California politicians. Durkee was arrested and hit with fraud charges earlier this month. U.S. Rep. Susan Davis, D-Calif., told her contributors in a letter released Monday that her campaign was robbed of about $250,000.
Feinstein’s office said the senator was “wiped out” along with the other lawmakers, according to the Los Angeles Times.
[...]
Durkee had authority over more than 400 bank accounts, including political campaigns, according to the federal complaint filed earlier this month.
Would it lessen the impact for the “victims” if they knew Durkee might have turned around and donated at least some of the money right back to Democrats?
More:
[Rep. Susan] Davis is missing more than $250,000 from her reelection committee. Loretta Sanchez has already declared her $379,000 campaign war chest was “nearly wiped out” by Kindee. The Los Angeles County Democratic Party reported that it lost at least $200,000, while California Assemblyman Jose Solorio (D) may be out as much as $677,000.
And dozens of other campaign committees have yet to declare whether they suffered losses as well.
As of right now Feinstein is unable to determine how much money fell prey to the campaign treasurer’s alleged self-imposed stimulus:
Feinstein said she and her campaign staff have been unable to access all their bank records at this point because Durkee alone controlled access to the account, which has made it difficult for them to assess how much money is gone.
Does this seem like the type of person to whom you’d give 100 percent control of your accounts?
Over the last decade Durkee had racked up $185,860 in fines from the Fair Political Practices Commission in eight different cases, a sum that FPPC Chairwoman Ann Ravel said points to “quite serious” issues.
Durkee was released on a $200,000 bond, a process that took eight hours because of the time required to endorse over to the court 2,500 checks made out to the “2012 Feinstein Victory Fund” (just kidding… I think).
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Honor among thieves.
Awwwww, what a shame.
Wow, this gal has a job with bho someplace! jarrett and holder have her in their sights for a campaign roll with bho? crooks stick together!
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Now they ought to know how we tax payers feel. There are many who have been wiped out too by the stupid policy of a home in every pot or something. The only difference is that they were wiped out by someone who at least skipped out the middleman.
Just another thought: why don’t those Dems etc., from California POOL all their $’s together, and “From each, according to his ability; to each, according to their needs.”
Sounds like Jose Solorio needs to be repaid more than he lost, and Ms. Feinstein needs to be repaid less than she lost.
Fair. According to Marx, and the marxist-in-Chief.
Sounds like it happened to truly deserving people !
Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) is up for re-election in 2012.
Please tell me that the California Republican Party has a strong candidate ready to run against Diane Fienstein!
This might be the first time in years that the Republican candidate could potentially have a financial advantage over the Democrat candidate in California.
For our policital elitist betters it is more like: “From each of you according to our perception of your ability to pay, to each of us according to our desire to redistribute your wealth for our personal benefit”.
Easy come, easy go. It’s not like the millions came out of their own bank accounts.
Well, this is just tragic. How can those Democrats win without their campaign funds?
That’s just not fair.
There are two possible solutions:
1) Either the taxpayers of California or the federal taxpayers can help the victims, or
2) The rotten, teabagging Republican opponents can be forced to give the Democrats half of their own campaign funds so the campaigns will be fair.
After all, shouldn’t we all want to help victims? Don’t we all want to be fair?
Dear “Ma’am”,
Now you know what it feels like to be a taxpayer in a sea of Dem-voting freeloaders.
Best,
Possibly. Depends on the candidate. We saw last time, financial advantage doesn’t help a weak candidate.
Ha #4, flmom, hadn’t seen your comment!
They allowed one person to control over 400 bank accounts? Are these people stupid or what?
As much as you’d like to think that, it’ll never happen. They will never understand or feel what it’s like to be a taxpayer.
They’ll find a way to blame Bush.
I don’t see the problem, it’s just the “Durkee Stimulus”. You gotta spend money to not go bankrupt. Isn’t that what we’ve been told? Just spending money to try to make the economy move again.
She’s worked so hard, and now this…
Oops I guess that was the other one…
What’s the difference?
Democrats hate when it happens to them but they dont mind stealing from others to pay for their ideas.
“They allowed one person to control over 400 bank accounts? Are these people stupid or what?”
Was that person’s name Ben Bernanke?
Don’t worry, Dianne. The new jobs bill is specifically designed to replenish all of your losses and then some.
…in other news, President Obama sent congress an amendment to his jobs bill today. The “Stupid Democrats bailout” is necessary to make sure that stupid democrats have jobs after the next election. President Obama was quoted as saying, “Why should they suffer just because they are stupid? Stupid people need jobs too. Pass this bill! Pass this bill!” The CBO rated the bill as stupid but budget neutral.
Very true, Hawkeye54.
But a financial disadvantage can certainly limit the potential of an otherwise strong candidate, especially in a large state like California.
Mostly, I just want the California Republican Party to get organized enough to take maximum advantage of opportunities like this whenever they arise.
Lots of people assume that incumbents are undefeatable. But the truth is that every candidate has their vulnerabilities and in the real world lots of unpredictable opportunities can change the course of a campaign.
For example, who would have ever predicted a year ago that Rep. Anthony Weiner’s former Congressional district might be represented by a Republican in 2011.
Hah!
Good. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of slime balls.
So when is Durkee going to replace Biden on the 2012 ticket. He sounds like a model Democrat.
As long as Durkee gives the money to the unemployed, we can call it “redistribution of wealth.”
Just as unemployment checks are stimulating the economy, the donations would make the economy that much stronger.
I wonder if Democrat voters will actually believe there is a problem here.
After all, the missing money was simply being redistributed from greedy Rich people who had more money than they really needed, to a poor working person.
Don’t Democrats normally “feel” that this is a “good thing”?
Wiped out:
Losing 250,000$ from your 5,000,000$ account.
Priceless
Plagiarism!!
j/k
Yeah, how does it feel, bee-och? It kinda hurts when it comes from someone you were supposed to trust, doesn’t it? Welcome to OUR world!
Karma…gotta love Karma!
Only when they’re getting a piece off the top.
Redistribution of wealth at its best. The evil, rich Democrats deserved it. /sarc
DESPITE having money stolen from them, these same leftist politicians will CONTINUE to endorse policies which will steal money out of taxpayers’ pockets.
WFW
This just in….Kinde Durkee is the name taken, when this person applied for a legal name-change. The former name?
George Bush
Said Durkee about the name change; “I was sick and tired of people accusing me of things I wasn’t responsible for.”
/sarc off
Great minds.
‘and if they come at you with de claw?
–Borat
Think about it!!! A lying Democrat stealing from lying Democrats! Their chickens…… are coming home…..to roost!!!
BAWWWWWAAAAAAAHAAAAAHHHAAAAHHHHHAHHAAAA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I’m puzzled by this nonsense, at least until I remind myself that liberalism is illogical and based on personal selfishness.
I just wasn’t aware how much they might feed on each other like this, but it’s always a risk when you throw reality and facts to the wind in leiu of the “big tent” philosophy.
I just wish they’d understand that on issues like “gay marriage”, abortion and sharia law.
This may be a portent of things to come.
I don’t believe her. She probably spent it herself.
It occurs to me that there are some oddities here, the strangest of which is that regardless of excuses they don’t know how much they had AND how much was stolen!
What I think will happen is that these people will *claim* they had X dollars and that *Y* dollars were looted, (and the delay in accounting is the time to phony-up the paperwork…).
They will then ask for money from the public till, you know, to restore “fairness” and the Edifant Party will trip all over itself to show how “big” it is and help push through legislation to “restore the stolen funds”. And the Edifant Party will expect a show of gratitude from the Donkeys for helping them to pick the public pocket.
Do I think that the claims of the amounts of the thefts will be overblown? Yes, by a factor of atleast 10 times what was really stolen. After all, one thing we *do* know about Donkeys: they spare no expense on themselves, they do things in a big flashy way, and their upkeep is *EXCEEDINGLY* expensive. And we know the Ediphants are surpassingly generous when indulging Donkeys using our money!
What’s that “they” say, Never let a good crisis go to waste…c’mon CA Repubs. Play the game their way. Had to admit, though, I was pleased to see it happened to Fienstein, the biggest crooked politician on the planet!!!
If you lie down with dogs, you will get fleas. Serves these crooks right!
Yeah, and you don’t allow only one signer on an account either. Dozens of schools and teams have learned that the hard way.
Every check should have two signatures and the accounts should be audited regularly.
What idiots.
like every single thing they do, leftists will let a convicted baby rapist keep the books if they thought it would garner more votes.
Looks like it’s going to work out alright after all, authorities seized Durkee’s investments in Solyndra and Air America and hope to recover all of the missing funds. Fienstein is said to be elated, relieved,and in need of Depends.
Enter Tommy Flanagan (SNL), spokesman for Sen. Diane Feinstein:
“How much was spen…stolen from the account? It was one hundred thous…million dollars! Yeah. That’s the ticket!”
Is it possible that Democrat members of congress are not only incapable of keeping track of federal spending, but their own, as well? Oh wait…it wasn’t their money, it was supporter’s money! Well, that makes perfect sense.
If this sounds like discrimination against older people, then so be it. DiFi turned 78 this year. Isn’t it about time for her to relinquish her Senate seat and ride off into the sunset? That is probably the only chance a Republican would have in picking up that seat.
That is my rep and this woman is a dingbat. Feinstein, Davis and Sanchez, no offense to the fairer sex, but here are 3 ditzy women. I sent a complaint to Davis and she sent a response that was unrelated to my complaint. I know she did not know the difference. I would challenge her to a Constitution quiz anyday, I know I would win. She is a moron.
put a smile on my face this morning (in Japan)
Can you say Schadenfreude? Sure, I thought you could!
And if you do have trouble saying it, then “Karma is a bi-otch” works too.
Surely there is a song parody in this story somewhere. When I saw the name Durkee, I thought of turkey, then “Turkey in the Straw”. Have at it, someone more imaginative than myself.
The moral of the story is:
Don’t trust a lying Democrat, even if you are one yourself.
What else can we learn from this story?
Democrats only want redistribution of wealth when the money is taken from someone else’s pocket. If Obama ever succeeds in raising taxes on the wealthy, rich Democrats will be the first in line asking for a waiver.
Sounds like the kind of guy Geitner needs. To each, according to their ethics.
Lemme see here; a democrat CONgressman taking money from a hard-working taxpayer to give to a lazy couch-potato is called ‘welfare’. A person taking money from a democrat CONgressman is called ‘fraud’ and ‘robbery’.
Hmmmmmm. Does not compute.
But, gee gosh golly darn,DiFi. I’m just so dog gone sorry to hear that.
Boo hoo hoo! BOOOO hoo hoo hooWAHHAHAHAHA!!!
Too bad this guy Durkee wasn’t managing the Social Security Trust Fund instead of some Decocrat’s “hard earned” campaign cash…he would still be a Liberal hero today.
This is choice.
Truly, there is no honor among thieves.
For the record, Kinde is female.
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Like the kids say, “What goes around comes around!”. A little “income redistribution” payback for DiFi is good–she likes this kind of action–applied to someone else!
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Enjoy, clowns.
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John Bibb
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couldn’t have happened to a more worthy Marxist elitist scumbag.
reap what you sow, you Sow.
and there’s more good news coming in 2012, old lady.
BoofrickinHoo.
FYI, it was Barbara Boxer who insisted on being called “Senator”, not DF. I wonder if BB used the same treasurer?
Well, I hate to be the one to say it; since no Democrat will have the guts, I will have the courage to tell it for them; This is RACISM straight up! They need to get Maxine and the CBC on this right away! Racism can’t stand in California!Everyone knows that any theft against a Dem. is blatant Racism!
On September 14th, 2011 at 10:21 am, marco said:
Well, I hate to be the one to say it; since no Democrat will have the guts, I will have the courage to tell it for them; This is RACISM straight up! They need to get Maxine and the CBC on this right away! Racism can’t stand in California!Everyone knows that any theft against a Dem. is blatant Racism!
Bad karma baby. The Democrat kleptocrat culture of corruption has predictably spilled over. Now even Dem entitlement employees are are getting their pieces of the pie, robbing from mom and dad. Children imitate what they see.
Yeah, true dat. Where’s Jeanine Garofalo when you need her? Straight up… * snarf *
I realized that after my snarky post, but it’s hard to keep the crazy old bats straight.
This reminds me of the end of the movie “Sneakers” (if I’m not mistaken), starring a bunch of lefty Hollywood types, where at the end of the movie the hackers break into the bank account of the RNC and clean it out, diverting the money to various well-deserving philanthropic organizations. Ah, the irony. Of course, pretty much any organization is more well-deserving than this group of ne’er-do-wells who’ve worked hard to plunder the wallets of productive Californians.
oh, that they were actually ‘wiped out’.
I hate when that happens. Just the other day I had $2 million in my own election campaign account and it just disappeared overnight.
You see, I’m just a VICTIM like everyone else – elect me!