Campaign donations from beyond the grave...

**Odin** · 11-30-2007, 18:29

Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave

I live in Illinois and its strange that every election cycle, Abe Lincoln votes democrat!!! LOL

Come visit us in MA sometime, everyone votes democratic. Often there isnt even a republican challenger at the local/state level offices.

Op the article dosent clarify if the donations are made from estates or not. I'd rather not go digging but I do recall hearing somewhere in political conversation (In MA

) that estates can be set up to make donations well into future after the benefactors death.

**Don Corleone** · 11-30-2007, 18:52

If the dead really were voting and funding campaigns, they'd all vote Republican. After all, its the Republicans that want to repeal the death-tax.

All kidding aside, this is a tax-artifact and has to do with how funds are disbursed out of an estate to continue political gift-giving. Like somebody else said, my biggest surprise was that it wasn't more.