AT: A GOP pick-up of a Democrat-held Senate seat looks a lot more likely now that a review of official filings reveals apparent travel on the taxpayers’ dime to a fundraiser in California.
Brent Scher of the Washington Free Beacon found the smoking gun:
Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) used taxpayer money to pay for travel from a visit to California for a lucrative campaign fundraiser, according to official expenditure reports.
Manchin’s office made a $1,515.65 disbursement for four flights taken by the West Virginia Democrat, disclosed on page B-1429 of the Secretary of the Senate’s report of Senate expenditures from April 1, 2017, to Sep. 30, 2017. The expenditure covered three July flights between Charleston, W. Va., and Washington, D.C., and an Aug. 9 flight from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh.
A review of Manchin’s campaign finance filings indicates the purpose of the trip was an Aug. 9 fundraiser at the Los Angeles headquarters of the Capital Group, a financial services firm. Contribution records sorted by the Washington Free Beacon show the company’s employees contributed $62,100 to Manchin on Aug. 9 and a total of $99,900 to him during the fundraising quarter.
Using one’s own money is anathema to a democrat.
Oh no, say it isn’t true. I’m shocked. Another slippery, slimy, cheating, bastard swamp dweller CAUGHT, again, in this case.
Ho, hum. I just can’t befieve the ‘fake’ media reports. Oh wait, if I read fake media, all I’d see or hear on the subject would be 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
Joe, you dumbass, you had promise. You appeared to be a Dem willing to go against the status quo.
Fooled me once. You’re just another slitherin’ swamp critter.
Enjoy life outside politics, fool.