Comments on: Feds indict Edwards for misuse of campaign funds http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/41058 The oldest political news site on the Internet because nobody's life, liberty or property is safe while Congress is in session. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:27:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pondering It All http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/41058/comment-page-1#comment-161640 Pondering It All Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:57:05 +0000 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=41058#comment-161640 Or is this actually intended to set the precident needed to go after Newt Gingrich, who undoubtedly used donated funds to date both of his replacement wives?

]]> By: Pondering It All http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/41058/comment-page-1#comment-161532 Pondering It All Sat, 04 Jun 2011 20:43:59 +0000 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=41058#comment-161532 So funding Edwards’ mistress was a campaign contribution? But if he had used real campaign contributions to pay her expenses, wouldn’t that be an illegal use of campaign funds? (Because it was not used for the campaign.)

If prosecutors succeed, doesn’t this establish a precident that will let any candidate use campaign contributions for almost anything? All you would need to do is to claim it would hurt your image if you kept driving that old clunker, so that’s why your campaign funds bought you a new Lexus, etc.

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