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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2897931Today, after running through a few of the possible uses Joe might have had for an unrestricted pile of end-of-primary cash, Ned's campaign notes some press coverage. In part:
A few of the newspapers noted the slush fund today, and there stories all seem to indicate that either: a.) the money wasn’t used to pay for volunteers. or b.) it was, but not in accordance with the law.
The Hartford Courant:
Sun was unable to say Saturday why the workers, some of whom appeared to have stayed for days or weeks in dormitories at the expense of the Lieberman campaign, were not listed by name and salary.
The report listed tens of thousands of dollars for rooms rented at a YMCA in Stamford , Fairfield University and a culinary school in Hartford , as well as more than $50,000 for rented buses and vans that transported the workers around the state.
The New Haven Register
Lieberman spokeswoman Tammy Sun said she wasn’t with the campaign at the time of the primary, but her understanding is that there was a staffer in charge of keeping track of petty cash.
She said the money was used to cover salaries, food, lodging and transportation for hundreds who were hired to do statewide canvassing. The daily rates ranged from $60 to $75 to $100 for the work, Sun said. She said she would attempt to find the petty cash report by Monday.
The problem with that is their campaign did file the necessary expenditure reports for food, lodging, and transportation in a good amount of detail in other areas of the document. Tammy’s claim just doesn’t make sense.
This story is not over. And the only acceptable outcome would be for them to release, IN FULL, the actual journals required by law to keep track of “petty cash” expenditures in excess of $100.
http://nedlamont.com/blog/1898/joe-liebermans-slush-fundThe Unofficial blog has the FEC report which shows that the items which Joe's campaign is claiming were purchased with the "petty cash" funds were on a different FEC report-
http://lamontblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-387000-slush-fund-didnt-pay-for.htmlWhoops!
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