Posted on 02/21/2012 8:31:47 PM PST by mnehring
Roll Call's Jonathan Strong reports that Ron Paul's office has a history of billing both US taxpayers and outside groups for the same flights -- and that he's been confronted about it:
In March 2005, David James called Rep. Ron Paul's (R-Texas) Congressional office for some documentation.
James's nonprofit group, the Liberty Committee, had paid for one of Paul's flights, and James needed a receipt or boarding pass to document the expense. He'd been pushing Paul for the paperwork and now, on the phone, he was "putting his foot down....
....David James wants Liberty Committee's money back, and is really angry about the whole thing:
On Feb. 15, James sent a fax to Paul's Clute office citing Roll Call's reporting and asking for about $10,000 in reimbursement for nearly 20 double-billed trips.
"It makes me damned angry that he would have taken the Liberty Committee, which was designed to work to pass liberty-oriented legislation and withstand any scrutiny and have contaminated it from the very beginning," James said.
"It never in a million years occurred to me that this man would be capable of what we can now see. So when there's mass hysteria and disbelief when this is published, I am not surprised. I was right with them."
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
It seems the recent 'double billing' taxpayers for expenses isn't an isolated situation but has been going on for a while. Don't forget Ron Paul was basically kicked out of the Libertarian party (and one of his staffers went to jail) over an embezzlement scandal back in 1988.
Thanks mnehring.
Ron Paul is a fraud - it’s that simple.
Agree with only one exception, he’s right on the FED.
Give it a few minutes and the bots will be here spinning and parsing this information.
It will probably turn out that according to them that stealing the money was the fiscally responsible thing to do.
I cant endorse stealing unless I do it
Submitting the same receipts for reimbursement twice?
He’s either ;
a) Corrupt
b) Suffering from Alzheimers
Either way, he’s done.
As chairman of the House Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy what has he actually, ACTUALLY accomplished?
I hope you are right but if it goes down that way I dont know what that does to the primary race
Let’s hope this puts him where he belongs...or at least out of public life & office.
Wellllllllllllll.... He bitched a lot.
Wellllllllllllll.... He bitched a lot.
Let me guess, you’re a Paulbot.
Except you forgot the rest of the story- nothing became of this on Newt because he was using his own plane and reimbursing the expense from the campaign as required by law (otherwise, it would be considered a donation and exceed the $2300 limit).
This is way different than double billing taxpayers and a PAC for the same expense (for apparently over five years).
(simplified just in case you are a Paul fan- Newt was renting his plane to his campaign. Paul double billing for expenses. Not even in the same category).
I believe that is why the “newsletters” have his name on them - he is an incompetent manager who did not keep control over published items with his name on them.
Not his fault. The newsletter author does his expenses too, he knows nothing about it, just cashes the checks.
Hopefully the liberal Paulbots will stop crossing over to vote in our primaries and not bother with politics anymore-at least not until their messiah runs again in another election.
This site won’t be worth visiting much until the Paulbots are banned. They swarm on every story with BS spin and piles of links to Paulbot sites.
At the risk of taking a great deal of abuse, I would like to attempt to clear something up. I am a Ron Paul supporter and have been for many years, but I am no liberal and nobody’s robot. One of my favorite memories is of the ass-whuppin that Reagan delivered to Carter. I volunteered in GWB’s first presidential campaign, but seeing how he was no different from any other politician, I didn’t even vote for him in the next election. I am a conservative Christian who happens to believe that our involvements overseas are destroying our country and ruining our military, and the Fed should be abolished.
If Ron Paul has been scamming people, then I am deeply disappointed in him, because one of the main reasons people flock to him is that he has remained true to his principles even when they were unpopular. This very well could be the end of his campaign. However, if you think any of the other candidates is going to change the status quo, what you express is the triumph of hope over experience.
I don’t understand why we cannot discuss politics and ideas on this site without resorting to name calling.
If you think that your "conservative Christian" church will withstand the legal onslaught that will follow same-sex marriage becoming legal in your state, you are woefully mistaken. But I digress.
Paul talks a big game but rarely does anything. He only rarely sponsors legislation. He hypocitically puts riders on spending bills that benefit his district and then votes against them with great indignation and fanfare, knowing full well that they will pass without his support. He is as close to an anarchist as we have seen in American politics in a long time. Frankly, Romney is is a step up from Paul. A big step up. And I wouldn't vote for Romney if he were the last living Republican.
I thought they were earmarks!
I support RP. I did not say I agree with him on everything. All churches will be safer in a society that doesn’t force political correctness on us. Further, I believe you misrepresent his views on the military and foreign policy, but you are unlikely to accept that. Freegards, Pining.
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