Over in a Barrel, Democrats Hurtle Toward the Rocks Below

American Greatness ^ | 12 Jul, 2018 | Michael Walsh

[litehaus]

Think the union guys had any idea about how NELSON avoids ‘responsibility”?

Democratic senator Bill Nelson (Fla.) has been avoiding common campaign expenses such as paying payroll tax and providing benefits such as health insurance by staffing his reelection effort solely through contractors, a rarely used and frowned-upon tactic.

Nelson’s filings with the Federal Election Commission so far this cycle contain no disbursements for payroll or salary, nor payments for payroll taxes that come along with having salaried workers. Also missing are any payments for health insurance, which campaigns provide to full-time employees. . . .

A campaign finance expert who discussed Nelson’s disclosure with the Washington Free Beacon called the structure “completely uncommon.”

“Campaigns do have tons of contractors, that’s not uncommon, what’s completely uncommon is to have no employees,” the expert said.

The campaign filings of Nelson’s fellow incumbent Democrats running in tight races back up the claim.

A review of filings this cycle for 10 other Democrat reelection campaigns—senators Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Joe Manchin (W.V.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Jon Tester (Mont.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), Bob Casey (Pa.), and Bob Menendez (N.J.)—found Nelson to be the odd man out.

[NobleFree]

Democratic senator Bill Nelson (Fla.) has been avoiding common campaign expenses such as paying payroll tax and providing benefits such as health insurance by staffing his reelection effort solely through contractors, a rarely used and frowned-upon tactic.

What else is new? Rats are defined by hypocrisy: fulminating against school vouchers while sending their kids to elitist private schools, decrying segregation while living in gated communities, et cetera ad nauseam.

[publius911]

If they are confused about their gender, I don’t want them making decisions about anything that affects me.

I go one step further and refuse to accept their hijacking of my language.
That should be "sex," not "gender."
Victorian prudishness aside, gender is an attribute of nouns, sex a biological attribute.

If they are confused about their sex, I don't want them making decisions about anything else that affects me; specially language.

[eyedigress]

I worked with many of you in Reno recently.

I am from the south. Their salary was no more than mine but the expenditure for them was ridiculous.

It is nothing more than organized crime taking money from workers.

There was a time it was needed, not for the last 75 years.