Have a question or issue in campaign law? Contact us and we'll try to answer you. Enter your e-mail below:
Learn more about...
Interested in a specific subject? Click here to browse our blog by subject area.
Blog Roll
AFJ Nonprofit Advocacy Blog
Beltway Blogroll
Campaign Legal Center blog
Cato Unbound
Common Cause Blog
Division of Labour
First Amendment Center
Going to the Mat
Instapundit.com
The Lonely Centrist
Michael Barone
More Soft Money Hard Law (Bob Bauer)
Political Activity Law
Public Citizen WatchdogBlog
RedState
Rick Hasen's Election Law Blog
Sabato's Crystal Ball
The Volokh Conspiracy
Votelaw
|
|
If crime was legalized, there would be no crime...
Published on July 21, 2008
by Sean Parnell
File Under: "Clean" Elections, Faulty Assumptions
The state of Pennsylvania is, shall we say, not necessarily known for open and honest government. Thus there seems to be little surprise over "Bonusgate," a scheme where Democratic state legislators used taxpayer funds for campaign purposes by giving bonuses to government employees for their work on political campaigns.
Further details can be found here.
My only question is, exactly how long will it be before so-called "reformers" seize on this scandal as a justification for their current pet panacea, taxpayer funded campaigns? It seems that every scandal in government these days is somehow used to explain the need for welfare-for-politicians schemes. One wonders if the "reformers" would even be capable of appreciating the irony of the argument that illegal diversion of taxpayer funds to political campaigns can be fought by legal diversion of taxpayer funds to political campaigns...
