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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRe Pence - I hope this comes up tonight
in the 'honest and trustworthy' section
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mike-pence-used-campaign-funds-to-pay-his-mortgage--and-it-cost-him-an-election/2016/07/15/90858964-49ed-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html
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Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district.
And then, scandal.
Campaign finance records from the 1990 effort showed that Pence, then 31, had been using political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife.
The spending had not been illegal at the time. But it stunned voters and undermined Pences strategy to portray the incumbent, Rep. Philip R. Sharp, as tainted by donations from special-interest political action committees.
It was a brazen act of hypocrisy, said Billy Linville, who was Sharps campaign manager. It was a bombshell, for sure. .?.?. Without question, he may well have won the election if it had not been for that.
Siwsan
(26,257 posts)Make that poison peas in a noxious pod.
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)one of the few potential issues with Gov. Kaine - accepting gifts (which is legal) while Governor. I assume Gov. Kaine is aware of Pence's misallocation of finds. I was not.
avebury
(10,952 posts)Christine ODonnel. She ended up with legal troubles over it.