Tony Perkins evangelical Christian figure: Encyclopedia II - Tony Perkins evangelical Christian figure - 1996 Jenkins campaign finance scandal

Tony Perkins evangelical Christian figure - 1996 Jenkins campaign finance scandal

Perkins was the 1996 campaign manager for Republican U. S. Senate hopeful Louis E. "Woody" Jenkins of Louisiana, then a Democratic colleague of Perkins' delegation to the Louisiana House of Representatives, who was running against Mary Landrieu. The campaign was fined $3,000 by the Federal Election Commission for hiding $82,500 in payments to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in return for Duke's mailing list. [2] Justice Sunday Preachers (Max Blumenthal in The Nation) [3] (Max Blumenthal's blog on blogspot.)

The 1999 Conciliation Agreement between the Federal Election Commission and the Jenkins for Senate 1996 campaign, signed by Jenkins, includes this text:

6. After the 1996 primary election in Louisiana, David Duke contacted Woody Jenkins and recommended that he use the services of a computerized phone bank system run by Impact Mail. Jenkins purchased several rounds of calls from Impact Mail. After the first round of calls, Jenkins began hearing complaints that Duke’s name would appear on the caller ID when a phone bank message would arrive. At that point, Jenkins tried to cancel the transaction but was unable to because Tony Perkins, his campaign manager, had signed a contract with Impact Mail. Subsequently, Jenkins instructed Perkins to put a stop payment on the check issued to Impact Mail and directed that Impact Mail be paid through Courtney Communications, the campaign's media firm. The Jenkins Committee issued three $27,500 checks to Courtney. Courtney, in turn, made out three checks in the same amount to Impact Mail. The treasurer of record, Michael A. Tham, states that he was unaware of the specific transactions with Impact Mail when he entered the information on the disclosure report; In the case of the first check, Mr. Tham simply assumed it was for TV advertising.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "1996 Jenkins campaign finance scandal", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki