Here’s the deal.  Michele Bachmann decided not to run for congress again.  I was cool with that.  However, she continues to raise and spend money in her campaign account.  That, I am not cool with.

She does it through a loophole in the law.  Elected officials who leave office are allowed to raise money to pay off any campaign debts. Bachmann claims she has debts of about $4,000 she has not paid to vendors of her last campaign. Okay. Yet she shows $1.6 million cash on hand in the same account. If you can’t pay $4,000 out of $1.6 million … you must be a Republican.

So, she still raises money online and sells her mailing lists.  What does she spend the money on?

… the former Minnesota congresswoman is still raising cash and spending lavishly, dropping $300 on limousines in New York right around Thanksgiving and staying last fall at the luxurious L’Ermitage hotel in Beverly Hills, where most rooms go for $400 a night or higher.

Records show Bachmann for Congress spent roughly $25,000 in the last three months of 2014 on airline tickets, a private club membership and pricey dinners in Washington D.C., Los Angeles and New York. Her campaign even paid $470 to renew the plates on a vehicle in St. Paul last December — weeks before she stepped down from office.

In case you’re wondering how these expenditures have anything to do with campaign expenses, you aren’t the only one.

“On balance, I think there are some specific expenditures that should require an explanation,” said Brett Kappel, a campaign finance lawyer and partner at Akerman LLP in Washington. “The question is, how were these related to her campaign or her duties as an officeholder?”

Time to go on Dancing With the Stars, Michele.

Thanks to Craig for the heads up.