Outgoing independent MAGAt Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has spent her final months in office missing votes, tanking a union-friendly National Labor Relations Board, and praising the obstructionist procedure known as the filibuster.
She has also violated campaign finance law by taking pricey trips to places like Rome and California wine country, according to a Wednesday complaint lodged by the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The group claims that since Sinema announced in March that she would not run for reelection, her campaign has spent over $100,000 on personal travel expenses. Those expenses do not appear to have any connection to campaign or official duties, making them illegal uses of her funds, CREW says. (Sinema’s office did not respond to a request for comment.)
“The law applies to you whether it’s your first week in office or your last.”
She has successfully fought off similar charges before by claiming that the expenses were related to fundraising, but that could be a tougher sell this time around given her departure from the Senate.
“The law applies […]
Thank goodness she’ll be gone and the newly elected senator will be wonderful!!!! And she’s not the only one who should get out of the Senate and/or the House. There are quite a few who do nothing and spout the MAGA line and why? Is this what is good for America? Certainly not! We are in one of the worst stages in my memory in US Government—-the conservatives on the Supreme Court are the worst—-voting strictly politically or religiously—not Constitutionally!
They don’t follow any ethics code. So you can imagine given the number of elected people to our government what else is going on!!!! Maybe the Oversight Committee needs to spend some time reviewing what is actually going on and expose the misuse of campaign dollars for personal expenses among other crimes!!!