Not a good way to start a campaign, before the campaign really even gets started…

And this after all but stealing the Obama’08 look for Ozinga’08. No wonder this candidate hyped as a “self-funder” wants to cut his losses to just $350k.

The 11th district is currently open as incumbent Republican Jerry “Most Corrupt Politicians” Weller is retiring at the end of his term. The GOP nomination is also open after primary winner Tim Baldermann decided he didn’t want to raise any money. Conservative partisans have been peeing in their pants fretting that Democratic State Senator Debbie Halvorson may have a free pass at the Congressional seat.

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Update: Rich Miller posts from his secret location that the comments to ArchPundit blog which came from “ozmail.ozinga.com” were from Mr. Ozinga’s business. A quick Google search did not find any official “Ozinga’08″ webite yet.

Federal regulations, as I understand them, do not allow a business to provide in-kind help to candidates so “Brian,” the commenter at ArchPundit, ought to be careful about those FEC laws. (I’m not a lawyer so I could be wrong on the rules regarding in-kind donations from businesses.)

The way I read “Brian’s” comment, he may simply be interested in defending the business’ reputation against the allegations of shenanigans the media has been reporting.

But if his intent was to promote or defend Ozinga the presumptive candidate … well, another Republican candidate, dairy and ice cream magnate Jim Oberweis in his US Senate run, found out the hard way all about the FEC’s strict rules barring use of corporate assets to assist a Federal campaign.