Posted on 08/13/2014 4:42:03 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) mistakenly used more than $3,200 in taxpayer dollars to fly to a campaign fundraiser last year, according to a report published Wednesday by CNN.
Her Senate office paid for the 400-mile round-trip charter flight on Nov. 8 from New Orleans to Lake Charles, La.
Using taxpayer dollars for campaign purposes is illegal.
Landrieu’s campaign spokesman, Fabien Levy, told CNN that it was a mistake that has since been corrected.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
This is a mistake she can ill-afford.
Vitter was making a subtle attack on her for flying everywhere instead of driving like he does.
Holder flew some family members somewhere, costing taxpayers $16,000 and paid the government back $900 or so.
How does that make sense?
The mistake was that she got caught.
Just a mistake... If she had an R behind her name she’d be facing charges. But the Dims always get a chance to “correct” their “mistakes” once they are caught. Just ask Charlie Wrangle.
Democrat politicians are always making mistakes like this.
Isn't it fortunate for them that when they do make these kinds of mistakes it is always in their favor?
The most unsavory was Landrieu's $4.3 billion "Louisisana Purchase."
THE PAPER TRAIL IS HUGE Sen Landrieu (Scumocrat-LA) sold her aye vote in what Forbes Magazine dubbed "The 'Louisiana Purchase" that included a massive $4.3 Billion to Landrieu
FORBES REPORTED the Democrats’ nailed Landrieu’s support for Obamacare w/ a greenback bribe. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for some $200 million more additional federal funds for Louisiana. Except that, due to a drafting error, the law ended up giving Louisiana $4.3 billion: more than twenty times the assigned amount. MORE HERE http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
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BACKSTORY In the fall of 2009, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was trying to get the necessary 60 Dimocrat votes to pass the Affordable Care Act. He needed every Dim on board, which gave waffling senators a great deal of leverage. In Landrieu's case, she connivingly saw that selling her aye vote could get her maybe $200 million federal dollars. Obama complied. Reid chalked up another vote for Obamacare. But not the measly $200 million but $4.3 billon was attached to the Obamacare bill earmarked for Landrieu.
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How $4.3 billion to Landrieu was calculatedly attached to the Obamacare bill, and how Obama and Reid failed to catch and fix it, is yet another indictment of the Obamacare atrocity. The payoff to Landrieu should be investigated as an indication of how EVERY Democrat came to vote for Obamacare....and will help elect more lock-stepping Democrats.
LA taxpayers don’t mind paying for Mary’s freight; they’ve been doing in nearly all her adult life, and then her father’s freight before her.
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