Devin Nunes gets busted using his campaign funds on wine tasting and trips to Las Vegas

[riversedge]

Source: raw story



19 Jul 2018 at 10:55 ET




Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif) has been using campaign donations for leisure activities like going to Celtics games and hitting up a winery, the Fresno Bee reports.

Nunes' PAC..........................


On March 9, Nunes' PAC spent $7,229 on restaurants and hotels in Las Vegas. Nunes also spent the money at wineries and on a limousine in Paso Robles.............................
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Nunes has been one of the lone lawmakers to bolster President Donald Trump's claim that the FBI spied on him during the 2016 election.

According to the Bee, his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation have helped his fundraising.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/devin-nunes-gets-busted-using-campaign-funds-wine-tasting-trips-las-vegas/

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Hope you enjoyed the wine you swine!!

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[elleng]

1. The Bee cares;

do his constituents?

[demmiblue]

2. Nunes used political dollars for $15K in Celtics tickets, winery tours and Vegas trips

Rep. Devin Nunes used political donations to pay for nearly $15,000 in tickets to Boston Celtics basketball games as well as winery tours and lavish trips to Las Vegas, according to reports from the Federal Election Commission and two nonpartisan watchdog groups.

Nunes, R-Calif., has reportedly been a Celtics fan since high school, though he grew up in Tulare, California. He used the money from his political action committee last year on three occasions to buy tickets.

His PAC also spent about $42,741 since 2013 on catering, site rentals, hotels and meals in Las Vegas. The most recent instance was March 9, when the PAC spent $7,229 at seven different restaurants and hotels in Las Vegas.

On June 19, the PAC’s expenditures included nearly $5,000 spent at six wineries in Paso Robles and Santa Margarita, both outside his district in California, and about $5,000 to Gold Coast Limousine the same day.

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article215099780.html

[riversedge]

3. Thanks for posting the original. 🌊🌊🌊 #FlipItBlue2018 #BlueWave2018 #VoteThemOUT #RememberNovember

[old guy]

4. IOKIYAR.

[Auggie]

5. Hopefully gives the Janz campaign more punch

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. I'm sure it was a "campaign trip" to the winery.

And a "campaign trip" to Las Vegas. And a "campaign trip" to a basketball game.

Wait, did I say, "I'm sure"? I think I meant "I'm not sure". But, I'm not sure. I'll sort this out ...

[sdfernando]

12. I'm sure it was a campaign side-trip to Pharump as well! /NT

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. Yes, to stay abreast of political poles, stripped of unnecessary decorum. nt

[sdfernando]

15. LOL!

[Downtown Hound]

7. Um, by all means, waste your compaign money in Vegas, Devin

Might I suggest you upgrade to the penthouse and order lots of room service.

[Major Nikon]

8. Grifters gonna grift

[TalenaGor]

9. lol - this seems like such average, run of the mill corruption compared to what we see daily

[Initech]

10. Celtics? BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I mean come on if you're going to waste money on that to see a basketball team, at least represent one from your home state! We've got the Lakers, Clippers, and the Warriors! But you're going for the fucking Celtics? Blasphemy!

[Submariner]

20. The Celtics are my team but I find it offensive Nunes is a fan

It would be healthier for him to avoid the Boston Garden. If he was spotted here he'd be run out of town.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Must be Fake News. That's why he hates the Bee.

[sandensea]

14. Coincidentally, they just had a bomb threat.

Life's little coincidences, I'm sure.

[Leith]

16. He Should Have Attended the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival

In fact, he should have made it a private function for him and his party only.

[packman]

17. Well, he was always a winer - wasn't he?

and we've been telling him to put a cork in it for years it seems.

That's all I got -

[ifihad2]

18. question: boycott?

I might be way out in left field here but: Nunes has interests in 2 wineries, that I know of, Phase 2 Cellars and Alpha Omega Winery LLC. I don't know if any wines are sold under those labels or some other, don't know much about the industry, just drink it. Does anyone know any of the particulars here, would it be possible to boycott or is Nunes just one of many holding interest in the business? I can't tell you how much time I spend trying to figure out how to screw these guys over, legally.

[niyad]

19. and the SacBee gets a "suspicious package" two days after posting article-hmmmm.

[calimary]

21. Livin' the high life on the taxpayers' tab.

Guess life in Fresno motivates you to seek better comforts. If you’ve ever been to that part of California, it’s what you gratefully drive THROUGH on the way to someplace else. Hell, ANY place else. Dry, flat, hot, semi-barren. No rain. Few trees. Agriculture mainly. And since he got sent from the small town to big fancy cosmopolitan Washington DC where the power and the big boys are, you get a taste for finer things. And an outsized sense of entitlement.

My sincere sympathies to the voters in Fresno and Tulare and other landlocked communities in that area. They deserve better. They CERTAINLY deserve better and more noble representation! Rather than vote with the best of intentions to send a local boy to the big leagues only to have him get too much of a taste for power and the high life and throwing his weight around, and bring shame and disgrace down upon them back home. They deserve representation with INTEGRITY.

[Vinca]

22. Well, let's face it. He learned from the best. World's biggest con DON.

Their mantra is "never use your own money."

[riversedge]

24. Bingo!!#🌊🌊🌊 #FlipItBlue #BlueWave2018 #VoteThemOUT

[47of74]

23. He really needs to go to prison

And even two buck chuck would be beyond his reach then.