[NautiNurse]

You can be as disappointed as you feel the need to be. Keyes paid himself a salary from campaign donations while he simultaneously left a trail of campaign debts for years.

Let's hear your pontification about Keyes sleight of hand with the Minuteman (MCDC) evaporated funds.

[outlawcam]

On the MCDC issue, you’ll have to address your question to someone who knows anything about it. Other than a few rumblings here by some malcontents, I’ve never read anything of the sort, and thus have no basis to perform any research.

I already conceded that he paid himself a salary during his first campaign and his first campaign alone, and I explained why that should be considered acceptable for anyone (except, perhaps, incumbents who are already paid through taxpayer money and can campaign without fear of losing it).

Campaign debt is not unusual. Most of them get settled, as Keyes past ones have been.

What is unusual is people paying themselves a salary, but I think our distaste for it ensures only those who do not depend on a salary (those who are already elected or already wealthy) stand a strong chance of being elected independently.