Cha-Ching!
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.
You just have to understand how R’s pay people back. Goes like this: One for you, ten for me. One for you, ten for me. They learned that as kids doling out the cookies.
1Please tell me that somebody, even the IRS, is in charge of hauling her butt in, looking at her “campaign expenditures,” and giving her a huge fine and maybe some jail time if she’s been cooking the books and living high off “campaign contributions.”
On the other hand, she’s like a TV preacher — if idiots want to hand over their cash so she can prance around in high style, it’s their stupid loss. I just want to wipe the smirk off her face.
2She’s gonna need it, now. A court in NJ just ordered a gay conversion huckster to pay back big bucks to his former clients.
Marcus Bachmann, you have a call on line 1!
3Ah, the dream world! She still thinks she’s in politics. Again, another RWNJ to prove my point that they are all addicted to campaigning. She needs help. A visit from the IRS would suffice as an intervention.
4Well, I am comfortable knowing that none of it is my money.
5Next Up:
Born-again virgin Bristol is preggers again…still unmarried….
What will be the New Grift for the new baby?
CrazeeChele and Barstool could take their act ‘on the road’ lecturing everyone else about their lack of good conservative family values~
6The really surprising part is that she is concerned about paying off her campaign debts. A whole lot of big-name candidates don’t bother.
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