Posted on 10/20/2010 9:03:43 AM PDT by radioone
When a candidate spends $29,000 from his campaign treasury to buy a sport utility vehicle -- as did Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., last fall -- it tends to draw attention.
It's a perfectly legal but profoundly strange purchase, one his donors likely didn't have in mind. It's also what you'd expect from a congressional campaign that isn't worried about losing and has money to burn.
Boucher is now in a close race -- close enough that he may worry as he rolls about his southwest Virginia district in his new Ford Edge, which the Roanoke Times reports was bought "with a mix of campaign funds and personal money in such a way that he can use it for official, campaign and limited personal business."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Didn’t Hillary do that when she was running for Senate? A Lincoln Navigator, I think.
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