FLAGGED BILL: HB 17 – Personal Use of Campaign Funds, Rep Keith Grover
I would like to focus on a bill that is good in principle, yet still manages to miss the point of what the public has been calling for. I have worked on many campaigns in my life, and one of the things I have always found shocking was the fact that candidates running for statewide offices could spend their campaign funds on whatever they pleased. As shocking as it may seem, I have heard stories of candidate’s wives spending campaign funds on a new dress or donations being turned right into car payments. In many ways, the system is rife...