Obama Not Sparing Chamber of Commerce

The Republicans are campaigning heavily via independent political
advertisements for the upcoming mid-term elections in November.
President Obama and Democrats are taking a strong stand at this and
have been attacking the Republicans to disclose about the funds that
are being used for such political campaigning.While rallying for a
Democrat candidate Joe Sestak, the president said in the rally that
American people have the right to know that from where this much money
is coming from? Obama also raises suspicions that this money can be
from foreign corporations or the oil industry. The republicans are
already blamed for keeping un-fair attitude towards corporate greed
and outsourcing American jobs abroad. Obama asked his opponents to
disclose their funding sources as the American people deserved to
know. David Axelrod, one of the top advisors to Obama said on CBS that
such political donation in secret is a threat to the American
democracy. This spending on the campaigns has added heat to the
American politics. The democrats are reacting with sharp attacks as
they fear losing some seats in house as well as the senate.The
democrats have seized a document report by Think Progress, which has
documented Chamber of commerce's ties to "AmChams" and other overseas
business groups that pay dues to US based businesses, which uses this
money to fund the political campaigns. This allegation has been denied
by chamber officials stating that the group collects about $100,000 in
dues from affiliates abroad and cordon off that money for more
international programs. They have denied disclosing any further
details under the guise of confidentiality rules governing the
nonprofit organizations. The white house spokesperson says that
President Obama is making a disclosure argument citing that this is in
the interest of the nation. According to him all organizations should
disclose this in order to clarify doubt that foreign money is used for
US elections.When asked if the general voter really cares about this
issue, Earnest says that it goes in the larger perspective and the
national interest. He says that it is more about republicans defending
corporate greed in the congress and blocking president's agenda for a
transparent system and making more jobs available in USA. Legal
experts on democratic as well as republican sides say that there is a
ban on using foreign funds for political campaigns in US, but
republicans allege that democrats have not come up with any hard
evidence which proves this scenario that the chamber is violating that
ban.