Lucy McBath's gesture of returning to donors the $80,000 she won't need now that she has decided not to run for governor of Georgia offers a stark contrast to Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s criminal appropriation of $750,000 in campaign funds for personal use.
Lucy McBath's gesture of returning to donors the $80,000 she won't need now that she has decided not to run for governor of Georgia offers a stark contrast to Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s criminal appropriation of $750,000 in campaign funds for personal use.
And honestly thousands of politicians who do similar things on a much smaller scale. I remember one time looking at the Somerville, MA campaign finance reports and seeing that then Rep Mike Capuano, who was mayor of Somerville back in the 90s, had something like $170,000 just sitting there. Which is a vast sum of money for a small city local political scene. As far as I know he never misappropriated it, but dragon hoarding money that he couldn't spend in his current office and was highly unlikely to use again was rather unseemly to me.
I wonder if Capuano ever regrets passing on a Senate bid (along with the entire Massachusetts Dem establishment) in 2012. He would almost certainly have beaten Scott Brown by at least the margin Warren got, and would probably still be there today.
If you look at the "hypothetical polling" section of the Wikipedia article on the race, you can see why he (and everyone else) declined. Capuano was polling 20 points behind Brown with Brown solidly over 50%. Warren was able to turn that around obviously, but the early numbers suggested that Brown was well positioned for reelection.
Lucy McBath's gesture of returning to donors the $80,000 she won't need now that she has decided not to run for governor of Georgia offers a stark contrast to Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s criminal appropriation of $750,000 in campaign funds for personal use.
And honestly thousands of politicians who do similar things on a much smaller scale. I remember one time looking at the Somerville, MA campaign finance reports and seeing that then Rep Mike Capuano, who was mayor of Somerville back in the 90s, had something like $170,000 just sitting there. Which is a vast sum of money for a small city local political scene. As far as I know he never misappropriated it, but dragon hoarding money that he couldn't spend in his current office and was highly unlikely to use again was rather unseemly to me.
Was he able to transfer the funds to his Congressional campaign?
As far as I know, no. But he could have refunded the money or donated to charity.
I wonder if Capuano ever regrets passing on a Senate bid (along with the entire Massachusetts Dem establishment) in 2012. He would almost certainly have beaten Scott Brown by at least the margin Warren got, and would probably still be there today.
If you look at the "hypothetical polling" section of the Wikipedia article on the race, you can see why he (and everyone else) declined. Capuano was polling 20 points behind Brown with Brown solidly over 50%. Warren was able to turn that around obviously, but the early numbers suggested that Brown was well positioned for reelection.