Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Looks like Congress will never catch up...

...on the Scandal Scorecard, as the Administration logs another entry, via Politus.

This time it's a legacy entry, going back to Campaign '00. Seems that the Bush-Cheney campaign left their expenses for the aborted Florida recount off the books, and has been hit with a $90,000 FEC fine for their failure to report.

In announcing the fine, it was reported that "Bush – Cheney 2000 held a bank account designated “Bush-Cheney 2000, Inc. – Media.” After the November 7, 2000 presidential election, the Committee redesignated this bank account “Bush-Cheney 2000, Inc. – Recount Fund” and used the account to raise funds and pay costs associated with the recount. However, the Committee failed to include that activity in disclosure reports filed with the Commission."

Guess they wanted people to think all those Republican staffers flew to Florida on their own tab. Voluntarily. Spontaneously, even.

Guess it may not have been so...

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