Candidates for Congress who raise or spend more than $5,000 are required to file a personal financial disclosure statement with the Congressional ethics office by April 20th if they are involved in a primary. Those statements reveal financial entanglements, sources of income etc.
Each of those statements, once filed, is then sent to their respective state repository. In Kentucky that is the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance. No such statement has been filed in Frankfort for Congressional Candidate Thomas Massie.
This failure to file is an ethics violation. It usually is resolved by a permissible late filing and a fine. But considering how little the voters of this district know about Thomas except the stories he tells about himself, this kind of transparency would go a long way.
But the question has to be asked, why didn't he file one? Gary Moore and Alecia Webb-Edgington both of whom raised and spent more than $5,000 did. Bill Adkins has filed his, though it was late.
Why he didn't file at all, is one question, what would it reveal is another. Will it confirm or refute his personal narrative? Everybody else files theirs.
Either way, it's just not good that on your first step toward government responsibility, you trip over ethics.
As the plot thickens ! What is he hiding ???, this MIT grad with all those pattens, that multi million dollar business, he built from scratch , that grant money he did not get , I guess his billionaire anarchist buddy from Texas will pay his fine and all will be well with Massie world. The 4th district voters will never know who they are voting for as long as he is the TEA party favorite, life is good!
Posted by: GH | October 30, 2012 at 12:05 AM