posted on May 4, 2005 07:08:36 AM
Kerry's expenses: That's the tickets
By Andrew Miga
Wednesday, May 4, 2005 - Updated: 08:36 AM EST
WASHINGTON - Sen. John F. Kerry tapped campaign funds for Red Sox tickets and to pay nearly $300 in overdue Boston parking tickets in March, records show.
Kerry's Senate campaign committee wrote a $287 check to the City of Boston Parking Clerk on March 31, 2005. The Bay State senator listed ``travel expense'' as the purpose for the expenditure.
Kerry leased a car for campaign-related travel in Massachusetts that was cited for about a half-dozen parking tickets in Boston.
Most of the tickets were issued in October and November 2003 and not paid until more than 15 months later in March 2005 after accruing penalty fees.
``They were leftover tickets we only found out about when we closed out the lease,'' Kerry spokeswoman Jenny Backus said. ``The car was used for the Senate campaign by staffers and volunteers.''
Kerry, meanwhile, used presidential campaign funds for a $3,150 tab for Boston Red Sox tickets in July when he threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park before the Democratic National Convention.
A Federal Election Commission spokesman said congressmen are entitled to pay for parking tickets and other expenses from their campaign funds as long as they were ``campaign-related.''
Other members of the Bay State congressional delegation also reported some novel spending this year.
U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston) spent $1,231 on makeup services during a two-week stretch in March, according to his most recent FEC report.
``Congresssman Lynch had a pretty intensive round of TV interviews due to the baseball steroid hearings, the Big Dig hearings and his Iraq trip,'' Lynch spokesman Matt Ferraguto said.
posted on May 4, 2005 07:43:57 AM
Coddling Tom DeLay
November 18, 2004
THE HOUSE majority leader, Tom DeLay, who was cited by the House Ethics Committee for three violations this year and another in 1999, was rewarded yesterday by his fellow Republicans with a rules change that will allow him to keep his leadership position even if he is charged with a serious crime.
This shameful action, coming only 15 days after an election supposedly dominated by pledges of morality and reform, casts a cloud over the House and adds evidence -- if any were needed -- that House Speaker Dennis Hastert, sitting in a chair once occupied by Henry Clay, Sam Rayburn, and Tip O'Neill, provides no more leadership than a cardboard cutout.
posted on May 4, 2005 08:12:37 AM
Ya, and bushy's has never killed anyone either (especially not in combat But he doesn't mind having others do it for him.
posted on May 4, 2005 11:23:32 AM
Crowfarm says we can't bring up Teddy Kennedy, but you can bring up Bush's years ago record. Is this board becoming a double standard. Is crowfarm trying to dictate how Vendio runs their boards. Is she trying to tell us that Republicans can't publish cartoons. Is she trying to tell us how many new posts a person can make. Get over it crowfarm Vendio is the boss not you.
posted on May 4, 2005 11:33:45 AM
libra you just recently got on someone's case about old news and YOU have brought up old news often...in fact, most of your posts are old like this last one. Have you ever had a new idea in the last 70-80- years ?
The information I presented is pertinent to what is happening now unlike your, and bear's, attempts to show how bad the Democrats are by bringing up an incident from 40 years ago ALL the TIME.
You keep saying get over it(when you don't have an answer). What libra do you actually mean by that? It makes no sense.
Do you think YOU run the RT by telling ME what to do?
You say,"Is she trying to tell us how many new posts a person can make."
No, but YOU are.
Yup, libra, there's a double standard...now get over it...
posted on May 4, 2005 11:50:11 AM
Parking tickets?? What about Bush's $20 million inaugural when the troops were begging for safe vehicles? What about Bush illegally going to war under the guise of womd even though he knew there were none? I agree someone should be in jail, but it's not Kerry or Lynch.
But he doesn't mind having others do it for him.