Kris Kobach used the mailing list of a privately funded border wall project to goose his own Senate campaign, potentially violating campaign finance law.
Campaign finance laws are a running joke in Washington. What few prosecutions and convictions do occur result in piddling fines and sanctions. Less than piddling actually.
Good. Bleed those people white.
Petty Much
Ethics is for Chumps
I want to see some of the presidential candidates take up the issue of vigorously enforcing campaign finance laws.
Although it would be even better if we could just go to public campaign financing.
It’s not truly a bona fide Rethuliklan campaign without violating at least a few laws.
Koback Campaign slogan: Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
This is tangential, but certainly worth recommending folks read this great past article by Rick Perlstein, which looks at conservatives and their use of mail lists: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con
Kobach has the best academic credentials of anyone in politics. So much for 1)the great universities are lefty training grounds and 2) they teach ethics. Looking at you, Harvard, Oxford, and Yale. Or maybe all of that information is fake.
Republican sleaze, dog bites man, water is wet, fire is hot, the sun also rises.
Has he completed that court-ordered remedial legal training yet? Sounds like there are a few more little knowledge gaps to fill in.
Grifters gotta grift.
Everything with a Republican represents a potential grift. They stare down into a bowl of Cheerios in the morning and wonder how they can scam General Mills for $100k.
Yes, the campaign laws are a running joke in Washington. BUT, they have a 5 year statute of limitations. So does charity fraud, or an illegal in-kind contribution from a tax exempt group.
I keep waiting for the Democrats to remind the Trumpies that while justice may be preverted now, that a new president can appoint a new AG and new US Attorney’s and then can and WILL prosecute crimes happening NOW to the full extent of the law.
And those convictions can be appealed to a SCOTUS that will likely be a solid 6-3 conservative to liberal tilt by the time Trump leaves office.
He could really use some Remedial Reading Comprehension, too.
Kris Kobach did something unsavory and illegal.
How unusual.
KKKris KKKobach: KKKampaign KKKrook!
…and somehow someway these guys are just OUTRAGED DAMMIT STUPID LIBERALS for questioning their patriotism!
Let’s hope that Kansas has found the remedy for what was wrong with it and see this half-witted crook for what he is. His failing to be elected governor is a great sign, make it it two defeats in a row.