Couple Paid Each Other Campaign Funds (Repukes, of course)

[warrens]

A GOP candidate for controller and his wife have moved $138,000 to self-owned businesses.
By Evan Halper, Times Staff Writer
April 13, 2006


SACRAMENTO — A Republican candidate for state controller and his legislator wife have funneled campaign money into each other's consulting firms, in effect boosting their income through political donations, campaign finance reports show.

Over a little more than five years, Tony Strickland and his wife, Audra, who replaced him as a member of the state Assembly, paid more than $138,000 raised by their supporters to businesses owned by them and a staffer living in their Moorpark home. An additional $20,000 in campaign money was deposited into a nonprofit organization run by Tony Strickland.


The Ventura County couple say they did nothing improper and that investigators have cleared them of wrongdoing.

Strickland, who as controller would manage and audit the state's finances, produced a June 2004 letter from Ventura County prosecutors saying they looked at the transfers and found no evidence of criminal activity. The district attorney's office review was set in motion by a citizen complaint.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-strickland13apr13,1,373834.story?coll=la-headlines-california

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[hedda_foil]

2. Yes, And two wrongs don't make a right in my book.

How about you?

[benburch]

3. Freepers read from a different book than we do.

And it isn't the Bible.