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.
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.