These are the kind of people Jim DeMint considers fiscal conservatives he wants in his Senate treehouse:
The Denver Post reports that nearly a third of the $304,000 Maes has raised during his campaign has gone to reimburse him and his daughter, Jordan Maes. The campaign has reimbursed Dan Maes $71,658, while Jordan Maes has been paid $14,101 for work and expenses.
The amount of Dan Maes' expenses, which include mileage, travel, phone, food and drinks for fundraisers, "misc expenses," subscriptions, parking and trips to Wal-Mart, may be unprecedented, said the Colorado secretary of state's office.
The Maes campaign says that its lack of a credit card is the reason for the high number of reimbursements. He described his campaign to the Post as a "cash and carry" operation.
"Every once in a while we might have left a wallet home and had to use a personal check or cash," Maes said.
Today, the AP reports, she admitted to one of CREW's main charges against her: that she used campaign cash to pay rent on her Delaware town house. She shed new light on the charge, however, saying through attorneys that the FEC "approved the arrangement." Back in March, she told a Delaware paper that she used "campaign funds to pay half the rent at her current town home," a move she said was "legal because of the home's dual purpose as a campaign headquarters."
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