Posted on 07/22/2016 7:26:39 PM PDT by randita
Sen. Tim Kaine legally accepted more than $162,000 in gifts when he served as lieutenant governor and governor of Virginia..
The disclosures have been publicly available for years, but they could be under some scrutiny now, since Kaine has been floated as a possible vice presidential pick for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Virginia Democrat disclosed the gifts from 2001 to 2009, according to reports filed by the Virginia Public Access Project, which Politico reported.
Most of the gifts were for travel to and from political conferences and events. Accepting gifts is legal under Virginia's lax ethics rules, and Kaine's aides pointed out there was no suggestion of official favors in return, and he has exceeded the reporting requirements.
"During his eight years as lieutenant governor and governor, Sen. Kaine went beyond the requirements of Virginia law, even publicly disclosing gifts of value beneath the reporting threshold," a spokesperson told Politico. "He's confident that he met both the letter and the spirit of Virginia's ethical standards."
The disclosures showed he received an $18,000 Caribbean vacation from Virginia-based tech investor James Murray, Jr., and in 2007 received $5,500 in clothing from Stuart Siegel of S&K Menswear, a company that declared bankruptcy in 2009. Teva Pharmaceuticals gave $12,000 for expenses incurred for the Democratic Governors Association meeting in Aspen in 2006. Obama for America had the largest disclosure--$45,075 for travel and lodging related to the 2008 presidential campaign.
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell was charged with corruption over $165,000 in gifts and loans while he was governor, although the conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court earlier this week. The original charges stemmed from the fact that these gifts and loans were from a single donor, Jonnie Williams, and McDonnell was accused of giving Williams favors in exchange for his largesse.
Kickback Party has endorsed the Democrat ticket
CBS, Friday night dump. IMO they’re proactively cleaning the skeletons to get them out of the way so they can say later it was “legal on old news”...
No wonder Hillary fancied him.
She’ll teach him how to add zeros to the end of those figures and to do it on the never-never.
“Tim Kaine accepted $160K in gifts as governor...”
He will fit in quite nicely with Hilda.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-tim-kaine-can-be-enormously-valuable-for-hillary-clinton/2016/07/22/fd9362d4-4f7d-11e6-a422-83ab49ed5e6a_story.html
Crooked Kaine, fits well with crooked H->!. Prison for both.
CROOKED/KAINE-2016
Just $162,000? What a rank amateur. Hillary “let your conscience be your guide” Clinton swindled more in one Goldman Sachs speech.
like Gore carried Tennessee, oops guess not!
It looks like Hillary realized that her campaign was limping along, so she decided she needed a Kaine. She might be able to walk with a Kaine, but can she really run with a Kaine, especially a crooked one?
I have a feeling that come November, Hillary will need a wheelchair, not just a Kaine.
Right... because an Israeli pharmaceutical firm decided to give money to an American governor because they were so filled with the Christmas spirit.
Well according to Hillary Clinton her supporters are ignorant so she knows either way they will still vote for her
Only $160,000?! Minor league player compared to Hitlery.
Pre-leaks? Get them out and irrelevant for the the convention?
I have lived in Richmond, Virginia for many years and can say without hesitation that Tim Kaines’s record has never received serious scrutiny.
They love him at the Richmond Times Dispatch - reporters and editorial page. They run press releases from his office as news. Their hard hitting reporters run articles without opposition quotes. THe local Polifact page claims him right - most of the time.
He used City funds to bus supporters to a political rally and somehow that was all OK.
He accepted more gifts from special interests and was never charges like Governor McDonald.
Here’s hoping that his record and history are closely examined.
This is why most politicians are politicians. The Benefits are absolutely unbelievable. Even the “legal” ones.
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