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struggle4progress

(118,332 posts)
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 03:51 AM Feb 2018

Eleven lawmakers used campaign funds to pay NRA dues

BY BRANDON CARTER - 02/16/18 11:44 AM EST

... McClatchy reports two current senators and nine current House members have used campaign funds to pay dues to the NRA and associated entities since 2004. The amounts range from $25 to $1,500, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) data.

Campaigns for Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) have both spent at least $1,000 on NRA dues ...

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/374214-eleven-lawmakers-have-used-campaign-funds-to-pay-nra-dues-report

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Eleven lawmakers used campaign funds to pay NRA dues (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2018 OP
Their Excuse Will Be That They Are Giving Campaign Money.... global1 Feb 2018 #1
Couldn't pay out of their own pockets like the rest of us hard working Americans... SWBTATTReg Feb 2018 #2
Oh My! malaise Feb 2018 #3

SWBTATTReg

(22,156 posts)
2. Couldn't pay out of their own pockets like the rest of us hard working Americans...
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 08:07 AM
Feb 2018

Makes me wonder about their other undesirable traits, perhaps similar to tRUMP, who skips paying his bills to creditors, who cheats everyone out of billing him properly because according to tRUMP, all of the materials and labor were substandard in quality, etc., etc., etc., and who lies to everyone about everything, to the point that you question everything they utter, and assume (rightfully) that most, if not all, of they utter is bullshit.

A worthless waste of my hearing aid batteries...as well as the energy I personally spend (my eyesight) in deciphering their gibberish nonsense.

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