Does this have anything to do with the tease I heard on the local Sacramento TV channel where they said something about campaign treasurers embezzling campaign funds? I don't have any reason to believe it is, but was just wondering... I wasn't able to watch the story whenever they finally got around to it...
not sure.
Couple Paid Each Other Campaign Funds
A GOP candidate for controller and his wife have moved $138,000 to self-owned businesses.
By Evan Halper, Times Staff Writer
April 13, 2006
SACRAMENTO -- A Republican candidate for state controller and his legislator wife have funneled campaign money into each other's consulting firms, in effect boosting their income through political donations, campaign finance reports show.
Over a little more than five years, Tony Strickland and his wife, Audra, who replaced him as a member of the state Assembly, paid more than $138,000 raised by their supporters to businesses owned by them and a staffer living in their Moorpark home. An additional $20,000 in campaign money was deposited into a nonprofit organization run by Tony Strickland.........(snip)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-election13apr13,1,5655919.story?coll=la-promo-politics
It's an interesting article and all true. Both Stricklands are very closely affiliated with Tom McClintock. There a ton of other stuff going on but I don't believe it involves the campaign treasurer embezzling funds.