Democratic Party files ethics complaint citing Romney use of jet

BOSTON --The Massachusetts Democratic Party is asking the state Ethics Commission to rule on Gov. Mitt Romney's decision to fly to California last week on a corporate jet owned by a leading pharmaceutical firm.

Also aboard the aircraft were three representatives for Pfizer Inc., owner of the $40 million Gulfstream V. Romney and state lawmakers are considering enactment of a universal health insurance law.

Romney's trip included a three-day meeting of the Republican Governors Association during which he was elected the group's chairman for the next year. The RGA arranged the transporation, Romney aides have said.

Under federal campaign finance law, a corporation such as Pfizer can provide the use of an aircraft to a political group such as the RGA, so long as it calculates the full cost of the trip, and the recipient discloses it to the Internal Revenue Service as an in-kind contribution.

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in a pfzier drug jet to his swarmy repuke governor convention and all pfzier has to do is.."calculate the full cost of the trip, and the recipient discloses it to the Internal Revenue Service as an in-kind contribution."

Maybe the Dems know something that isn't being reported here?