The reason that they're listed as donors is because, if they purchase it through the campaign, and it goes into the campaign coffers, it would be a violation of campaign laws if we did not list that. So all we're doing is abiding by the law.
Obama defends his campaign's counting of merchandise purchases as donations.
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The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.
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