In an effort to be fair, balanced and thoroughness, with the data available, I wondered which group, the Republicans (Repubs) or Democrats (Demos) were more effective at reporting their credit card expenses for campaign expenditure reporting purpose.
Well, it took awhile, but, I made it through the all of the 2005 reports that are available online and in general the Repub’s fair much better at their reporting of credit card expenditures and only 2 of them (Montgomery and Overbey) had credit card charges on their reports.
Monty did pretty good, not a lot of ‘whys’ in the description (TRAVEL - $528.40 & RECEPTION - $268.89), but Overbey just said REIMBURSEMENT - $216.32.
It would be a fair statement that my representative, Rep. Rinks, still leads the pack, by a bunch, at not disclosing credit card purposes, ($15,039.92 in 2005)), followed by Rep. Hargrove, who just grouped $7,941.31 as tickets, air travel, car rental, meals & postage, on his VISA.
So, one could say, that all the Repub’s have less than $1,000 in ill defined credit card expenses and Randy, himself, has over $15,000, totally undefined.
If we just compared the top two, it would be $1,000 Repubs. and $23,000 for the Demos. and this is for an ‘in between election’ period, known also as an off year report.
I’m also working on a breakdown of the sources of Rep. Rinks contributions that should be posted shortly. The preliminary figures are quite revealing.
Uncle Ted
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I forgot to mention that the review was for just the House of Representatives.
Might have to do the Senate, too.
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