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On Tuesday, as Presidential candidate Michael Cooper held a press conference to announce his cabinet picks, the Cooper
Team was plagued by questions about a rapidly unfolding money laundering scandal. As first revealed in
the Drudge Report, the Cooper campaign has been embroiled in an international financing scheme. It is alleged that money from
numerous overseas websites has been funneled through the left-leaning activist website PissOff.org. As you may recall, PissOff
was formed during President Clinton's impeachment trial, as a way of telling America to stop worrying about the president's
sexual deviations in his own bedroom (and in the Oval Office). Ironically, during the California Recall, the same website
urged the Attorney General to look into allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of Arnold Schwartzenegger.
It is a violation of federal election laws to accept campaign money from foreign sources (whether it comes from individuals
or corporations). As an "activist" website based in the San Francisco Bay Area, PissOff is free to donate money to any candidate
it sees fit. However, it is highly illegal for such a site to actively solicit and accept money from foreign sources (to be
used in funding American presidential campaigns).
As a result of the Drudge story, one of the sites (CanadaForCooper.com) has disconnected its link to PissOff.org and
issued this statement: "To the best of our knowledge, eh? No one from Canada contributed any money to Cooper, eh? And even
if they did, eh? It wouldn't be worth much, you know, since it's Canadian money, eh?" The site's owners also pointed out that
it was the PissOff site, and not theirs, that was collecting money illegally to distribute to presidential candidates. Not
surprisingly, the vast majority of web referrals to the CanadaForCooper site came from Michael Cooper's official campaign
site, www.cooperforpresident.com (which makes Mr. Cooper's claims of not knowing about the scheme dubious at best). Cooper's International Campaign Finance
Director, Maria Hsia (currently on a fundraising tour in Asia) could not be reached for comment.
Another website (registered in Sweden) was caught funneling money to Cooper. After a police crackdown, IntlCooperMoneyLaunderingScam.com
(founded by the Marxist-Islamist Alliance of Eurotrashers) was taken down. The group denies any wrongdoing, and says it simply
took the site down because the name could have been misinterpreted. The group insists that it is a non-profit, neutral, law-abiding
enterprise, whose sole intent is to get a specific American presidential candidate elected, while running roughshod over
as many laws as possible.
When asked about the various sites, and the money laundering allegations, Cooper for President campaign manager (Sarah
Cooper Payton) had this to say ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " We'll be back next week to see
if she's had sufficient time to think up an excuse. Although Cooper isn't the only candidate to be tainted by this scandal
(which was quickly swept under the rug by the "mainstream" media), he is the first to publicly comment on it (if you consider
denying everything an actual "comment," that is). It has also been revealed that the $750,000 being carried by Saddam Hussein
at the time of his capture was earmarked for contributions to AppeaseNiksForDean.eu, and KrautsForClark.com. Neither one would
return our phone calls.
Update: As a result of an ongoing investigation, The Cooper Team has fired Maria Hsia. We are happy to announce our
new International Campaign Finance Director, Mr. Ted Dibiase.
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