In June, Isaac Arnsdorf wrote at Politico about the troubling “gifts” Virginia Senator Tim Kaine received while governor of Virginia, noting that “similar presents” led to corruption charges former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell.
Breitbart: Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine took advantage of the state’s lax gift laws to receive an $18,000 Caribbean vacation, $5,500 in clothes and a trip to watch George Mason University play in the NCAA basketball Final Four during his years as lieutenant governor and governor, according to disclosures he filed.
Now a leading contender to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Kaine reported more than $160,000 in gifts from 2001 to 2009, mostly for travel to and from political events and conferences, according to disclosures compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project. The givers included political supporters, a drug company that soon after bought a facility in Virginia, and Dominion, the state’s biggest provider of electricity. MORE
This must be the core of ‘who we are,’ that Obama is always bloviating about.
so? … I absolutely marvel at the way he speaks Spanish
/sarc off
Ola! Hey, I also speak Espanol! I should run for something!
Juan,
Yes! Run for the border!
(/sarc)
He still has the gift of gab, but lost the gift of intelligence.
Then again, most Democrat politicians think that grift, not gift, is still OK to take.