Posted on 12/06/2018 4:09:50 PM PST by gopno1
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft's office has launched an investigation into whether Attorney General Josh Hawley used public funds for campaign purposes.
The American Democracy Legal Fund, which requested the investigation last month, provided a letter from Ashcroft's office dated Thursday confirming the investigation.
"Pursuant to section 115.642, RSMo, this office will commence an investigation into the alleged offense," Ashcroft's deputy legal counsel, Khristine Heisinger, wrote in the letter.
The statute referenced in the letter outlines the Secretary of State's Office complaint and investigation process. State law prohibits the use of public funds for campaigning.
Ashcroft's office in the letter asks the American Democracy Legal Fund to provide documents to assist in the investigation.
The fund wrote to Ashcroft's office Nov. 2, four days before the November general election in which Hawley defeated incumbent U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, requesting the investigation.
"Evidence strongly suggests that Hawley used public funds as Attorney General to support his candidacy for U.S. Senate, by instructing political consultants to direct state, taxpayer-paid staff to undertake tasks that would raise Hawley's profile in his bid to represent Missouri in the U.S. Senate," the American Democracy Legal Fund wrote in its complaint to Ashcroft's office.
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Here we go again.
I think Jay is a Republican and a conservative. He will likely do the letter of the law for this stupid leftwing organization and find no wrong doing.
I’m not worried.
He is, and he is also the son of John Ashcroft.
Leftists organizations are always going to question the legitimacy of a Republican elected. Republicans need to do the same to Democrats, instead of capitulating on everything. But this Sect. of State is the son of John Ashcroft. So unless Josh is guilty of the accusation, I am not that concerned.
He is, and he is also the son of John Ashcroft.
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The jagoff who let the Lame Plame special counsel go on for a few years even though there was no underlying crime???? That John Ashcroft?
Sound like a certain investigation that has been going on for a few years against Trump?
“Public funds?”
Hawley barely spent a week on the campaign.
I was disappointed that Ashcroft allowed the Amendment 1 ballot language which allowed Soros to take redistricting out of the hands of the legislature. This only raises my concerns that he may not be playing entirely for our team.
In that case, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from investigating—handing the decision about whether to invite a special prosecutor to his deputy attorney general, James Comey, who is now director of the FBI.
Did Comey suggest to Ashcroft that he should recuse himself, and Ashcroft took the bait? But the real scumbag in that whole affair as we now know was former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. John Ashcroft was a good & decent man, who wanted to show no bias in the affair. But like Sessions, it was a mistake for him to recuse himself. Patrick J. Fitzgerald, was also another scumbag who knew Scooter Libby was not guilty. All of these people, except John Ashcroft, need to rot in jail before rotting in hell.
“Evidence strongly suggests that Hawley used public funds as Attorney General to support his candidacy for U.S. Senate, by instructing political consultants to direct state, taxpayer-paid staff to undertake tasks that would raise Hawley’s profile in his bid to represent Missouri in the U.S. Senate,” the American Democracy Legal Fund wrote in its complaint to Ashcroft’s office.
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Whaaaaa??
What kind of silly accusation is that, and where’s the crime?
The writer never identified the parties of the candidates involved. Looks like STUPIDITY has reached the Nutmeg or Show Me state like it has elsewhere.
And I thought the Missouri School of Journalism was supposed to be the best in the country? If this writer graduated from there, there’s trouble in MOtown.
we play 1D chess out here and are very polite about it.
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