Krueger: Dead Politicians Shouldn’t Be Spending Campaign Cash
The Politicker recently noticed some amusing campaign committee spending, including former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned under male-groping allegations, using his non-existent campaign to pay his wife, and a former state senator who's spending campaign money despite the tiny fact he's been deceased since 2005.
Now at least one State Senator is renewing her call for Albany to end spending by so-called "ghost campaigns" belonging to retired or deceased elected officials by passing a bill requiring inactive campaign committees to give their cash to charity, the state's general fund, the State University of New York, another committee, or back to the original contributors.
“Everyone knows our campaign finance laws need an overhaul, but this issue is particularly obvious and the solution should be a matter of bipartisan agreement," Senator Liz Krueger said in a statement.
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