The Non-Candidate Candidate

Fred Thompson continues to raise money without officially declaring his candidacy, but he's also raising eyebrows as people start to question whether he's in violation of campaign finance laws by ducking the filing deadline. Legal experts, including those from CampaignLegalCenter and CREW, already said he "appears" to have violated the law.

This, keep in mind, despite the fact that he was "an advocate in the Senate of a campaign finance reform bill requiring greater disclosure of contributions."

If the non-candidate candidate wishes to avoid disclosing his finance figures, maybe he should stop referring to the fact that he already made his decision. He has said he's "going to do this," for example.

The blogosphere has been abuzz with stories about this disclosure controversy. And it also appears that the pressure is mounting on Fred Thompson so much that he's now making it public that at the end of the month he'll file partial disclosures with the IRS.

But that doesn't change his failure to file in the past -- or even the present, for that matter. Stay tuned.

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PresidentBurns2008YahooCom on July 26, 2007 at 11:38 PM

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