Running for office at that level is a full-time job
How do you pay your food and rent if you cannot fundraise and use it to live?
All I would ask is full-disclosure. You buy a hamburger at McD’s and you keep track of it.
Now.. I am so glad that they got time to do this after the exhausting search to get to the bottom of those sequentially numbered campaign donations to Obambi from overseas. - wait, they didnt?
you are correct and it is legal for the campaign to pay the candidate a salary that does not exceed the candidates earnings for the previos year... part of Christine’s problem is that she made less than $6,000 the year before the campaign.
Prediction: she will negotiate a sttlement, pay the fine with campaign funds and blame the Treasurers (she had 4 or 5).