text: Dead Guam Woman Listed As Tea Party Donor : It's All Politics : NPR
  Dead Guam Woman Listed As Tea Party Donor : It's All Politics The Center for Responsive Politics said a woman listed as a donor to the Tea Party died in 2007. Her widower denies he had anything to do with it.
  Dead Guam Woman Listed As Tea Party Donor
  January 14, 20115:11 PM ET
  In Chicago, the dead have been long known to vote. So it's not surprising that in some places they also make political donations. Apparently Guam is one such place.
  From the OpenSecretsblog:
  According to the Center for Responsive Politics' research, Joan Snyder Holmes of Guam made three donations in the autumn of 2009 to the group's political action committee — known as the Our Country Deserves Better PAC. The donations together totaled $2,500.
  Such activity would have been unremarkable had Joan Holmes not died of cancer on Feb. 1, 2007. She was cremated, and her ashes are now buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia
  The woman's widower said he didn't make the contribution using her name and Sal Russo, a power in the Tea Party Express, said he was surprised by the donation.
  One of the best lines within the post comes from Larry Noble, formerly the Center for Responsive Politics' executive director and now a Skadden Arps lawyer. Another excerpt:
  This could all be a simple mistake. And, of course, if you were to comb lists of Democratic donors it'd be amazing if you didn't find a few dead people there too. So no one should take any partisan delight in this. Not that this will stop anyone.