Rob Woodall Receiving Business-Organized Campaign Contributions
Even after the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that granted corporations the freedom to make unlimited independent expenditures on behalf of congressional candidate, it remains against federal campaign finance law for businesses to organize direct contributions to congressional candidates’ campaigns. Yet, that’s just what appears to have been done by Pull-A-Part, an auto parts company, appears to have done.
There are only 75 individual contributions to the 2012 re-election campaign of U.S. Representative Rob Woodall. Six of those 75 contributions have come from Pull-A-Part executives.
69 of the 75 individual contributions to Rob Woodall’s 2012 campaign are from people living in his district in Georgia. The adult population of Georgia’s 7th congressional district is 611,261. So, the chance that any individual adult resident will have sent money to Congress Woodall’s re-election campaign is about one in 8,858. The chance that six contributions from any single company in the district to the Woodall re-election campaign would take place at random, without any coordination among the executives, is so small that it practically doesn’t exist.
It looks like Rob Woodall and Pull-A-Part both have some explaining to do.
