AMONG HER MANY FAULTS, IT SEEMS STUPIDITY IS PROMINENT

Rashida Tlaib May Be In Deep Kimchi (but probably won't be)

by Bob Walsh

The House Ethics Committee is looking very hard indeed at a report that say it looks like Rep. Rashida Tlaib paid herself a shitload of money out of her campaign funds for personal expenses, and was stupid enough to leave an email trail.

Specifically under scrutiny are two payments totaling $17,500. She is asserting the payments were permissible because they were "adjustments" for the time period prior to November 6 of last year though they were not made until November 16 and December 1.

It is permissible for a candidate to be paid as salary by her campaign, but there are some very definite limits and requirements on how this must be done. Ms. Tlaib seems to have missed the mark, assuming you believe her basic statement on the matter.

She is permitted to pay herself a salary from campaign funds not to exceed the amount she earned during the previous year on her "real' job before she ran for congress. The OCE (Office of Congressional Ethics) does state that the total sums of money fall within appropriate limits, but the timing seems to show a problem with "good faith compliance" of the rules.

Tlaib also sniveled that it is "unprecedented" for the OCE to dig into issues that came up before the person was sworn in. The committee can recommend various penalties, but almost never does, because they are pretty much all a pack of crooked fucks.