Sunday, October 24, 2010

Christine O'Donnell Uses Campaign Cash To Pay Her Rent

Friday, the AP reports, she admitted to one of CREW's main charges against her: that she used campaign cash to pay rent on her Delaware town house. She shed new light on the charge, however, saying through attorneys that the FEC "approved the arrangement." Back in March, she told a Delaware paper that she used "campaign funds to pay half the rent at her current town home," a move she said was "legal because of the home's dual purpose as a campaign headquarters."


But commission rules "say candidates can't use campaign money for their mortgage or rent 'even if part of the residence is being used by the campaign,'" adding more murkiness to her already cloudy financial past.

Read on.

4 comments:

KittyBowTie1 said...

"Christine O'Donnell Uses Campaign Cash To Pay Her Rent." Well, she is obviously in the wrong state. That kind of nonsense is probably legal in Illinois.

SP Biloxi said...

Well, if things don't work out for O'Donnell in Delaware, she can move over to Illinois as a carpetbagger since using campaign cash in your state is legal. ;-)

KittyBowTie1 said...

Except for smoking weed and carrying a gun, almost everything is legal in Illinois!

SP Biloxi said...

Except for weed? Well don't look for Bush to live in Illinois. ;-)