Well, if I were still in office, I would ask my people to look into the following points--one of which you've already addressed--before answering the question. Where does the money come from? Was it part of the funds that were there already? And the other question I would ask would be whether any of those funds are from corporate, union, or association funds, because there's an interdiction from passing those through from the EDA to a political party. The last thing I would ask is whether this is the kind of transfer that is permissible between these two entities. Based on that, then I would give you the advice, from what I understood you to say, that it would be okay so long as the two other conditions, over and above the one that you stipulated, were okay. And if they said yes, that is an appropriate one, but I can tell you that I don't remember specifically if that is entitled as such.
On February 22nd, 2007. See this statement in context.