Rick HasenVerified account

1/ Unless I'm mistaken, the statute doesn't prohibit soliciting a thing of value. It prohibits soliciting a contribution or donation,

2/ and specific kind of contribution or donation is in the form of money or a thing of value.

we must be talking past each other.

Can you cite to the text that defines a contribution or donation as a thing of value in the abstract? That would help.

I think we agree the key phrase is this: "a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value." I read that as having two parts:

First, a contribution or donation. Second, a specific kind of contribution or donation: one of money or another thing of value.

Say, for example, I decide to take a $100 and burn it in my kitchen in honor of the election. That $100 is "money" and a "thing of value."

But I don't think its a "contribution" or "donation" that is "received" or "accepted" (or that would be sought to be).