As a tax-exempt entity, OFA by law can't intervene in elections and is subject to strict limits on lobbying.
And if it is OFA doing it, should they be reimbursing the taxpayers?
Mr. Israel says he met in January with Jim Messina, Mr. Obama's 2012 campaign manager who now runs OFA, to discuss the 2014 races.
Carney said the administration interacts with a variety of such groups, adding that administration officials may appear at OFA events but won't be raising money.
President Obama and his political team fire up the OFA network.
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OFA's focus is "not on working with us, " Mr. Barrasso said.
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But when OFA asks supporters to cut a check, it will be competing with a growing list of pro-Obama factions making appeals to a limited pool of Democratic donors.
For example, Blue State Digital, a firm founded by the campaign's digital strategist, Joe Rospars, is providing the same technology platform the campaign used to both OFA and Battleground Texas.
An OFA "founders' summit" for donors on March 13 at a Washington hotel will include addresses by Messina, Plouffe and others, according to an invitation obtained by The Associated Press.
While I could envision how an over-amped fundraiser with little knowledge of the rules of the game might make such an error, I was certain that OFA would immediately step forward to set the record straight, denounce any such activity if it had occurred and insure that it would not happen again.
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Ms. Bary's concern that she may be killed because of her conversion from Islam to Christianity remains a subjective and speculative concern in that FDLE's inquiry to date has failed to reveal any evidence ofa conspiracy to commit, solicitation to commit, attempt or other efforts to commit any such action or other violence against her.
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