MUR #5511

RESPONDENTS: Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth (FKA) Swift Boat Verterans for Truth; Symmes, Weymouth D.

COMPLAINANTS: Democracy 21; Campaign Legal Center; Center For Responsive Politics

SUBJECT: Contributions-Excessive; Contributions-Corporations; Expenditures-Coordinated; Reporting

DISPOSITION: The Commission decided by a vote of 6-0 to approve the Factual and Legal Analysis, as recommended in the General Counsel's Memorandum dated December 11, 2006.
The Commission decided by a vote of 6-0 to take the following actions in MURs 5511 and 5525: 1. Accept the conciliation agreement with Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth, as recommended the General Counsel?s Report #3 dated December 4, 2006. 2. Take no further action with respect to the Alachua Bush-Cheney Committee, Roy Hoffman, Charles Plumly, Alvin Horne, John O?Neill, Bob Perry, Harlan Crow, Merrie Spaeth, Bill Lannom, William Franke, and Weymouth Symmes. 3. Approve the appropriate letters. 4. Close the file.
The Commission decided by a vote of 6-0 to take the following actions in MURs 5511 and 5525: 1)................REDACTED.................................. 2)...........................REDACTED........................... 3) Take no further action as to allegations that Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth made excessive in-kind contributions in the form of coordinated expenditures. 4) Take no further action as to allegations that Bush-Cheney 04, Inc. and Salvatore Purpura, in his official capacity as treasurer, knowingly accepted excessive in-kind contributions in the form of coordinated expenditures, and close the file with respect to this Respondent. 5) Close the file with respect to the Alachua County Republican Party, the Republican National Committee and Bob Kjellander, in his official capacity as treasurer, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Kenneth Cordier. 6) Approve the appropriate letters.
The Commission decided by a vote of 5-0 to take the following actions in: MUR 5511:1. Find reason to believe that Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth violated 2 U.S.C. §§ 433, 434, 441a(f), and 441b(a) by failing to register as a political committee with the Commission; by failing to report its contributions and expenditures; by knowingly accepting contributions in excess of $5,000; and by knowingly accepting corporate and/or union contributions.2.Approve the factual and legal analysis, as recommended in the First General Counsel?s Report dated February 4, 2005. 3. ............ REDACTED ............. 4.Approve the appropriate letters.MUR 5525:1. Find reason to believe that Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth violated 2 U.S.C. §§ 433, 434, 441a(f), and 441b(a) by failing to register as a political committee with the Commission; by failing to report its contributions and expenditures; by knowingly accepting contributions in excess of $5,000; and by knowingly accepting corporate and/or union contribution.2. Find reason to believe that Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth violated 2 U.S.C. §§441a and 434 by making and failing to report excessive contributions, in the form of coordinated expenditures, to Bush-Cheney ?04.3.Find reason to believe that Bush-Cheney ?04, Inc. and David Herndon, in his official capacity as treasurer, violated 2 U.S.C. §§441a(f) and 434 by accepting and failing to report excessive and prohibited in-kind contributions.4.Take no action at this time against the Alachua County Republican Party.5.Take no action at this time against the Republican National Committee and Mike Retzner, in his official capacity as treasurer, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove.6.Take no action at this time against Kenneth Cordier; Harlan Crow; William Franke; Roy Hoffman; Alvin Horne; Bill Lannom; John O?Neil; Bob Perry; Charles Plumly; Weymouth Symmes; and Merrie Spaeth.7.Approve the factual and legal analyses, as recommended in the First General Counsel?s Report dated February 4, 2005. 8. ............... REDACTED ................9. Approve the appropriate letters.