So does whoever wins the special election move into the Downton Abbey red rooms? Or does a more senior member get that suite?
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) March 17, 2015
Aaron Schock making a lot of friends on the way out the door by stepping on the GOP’s budget news cycle.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) March 17, 2015
It wasn’t the Dowton Abbey-themed office, or the private jets to the Taylor Swift concerts, or the $5k custom-made “Presidential” lectern that finally sent Rep. Schock scrambling for the exit — it was a classic penny-ante sales grift. According to Politico:
… Schock billed the federal government and his campaign for logging roughly 170,000 miles on his personal car from January 2010 through July 2014. But when he sold that Chevrolet Tahoe in July 2014, it had roughly 80,000 miles on the odometer, according to public records obtained by POLITICO under Illinois open records laws. The documents, in other words, indicate he was reimbursed for 90,000 miles more than his car was driven…
The OCE probe —and any potential Ethics Committee investigation — will disappear with Schock’s resignation. However, federal law enforcement could still look into Schock’s actions…
Well, maybe not that penny-ante…
Remember, 90,000 extra miles of reimbursements is about $50,000 — not a small amount of money.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) March 17, 2015
Any bets on how long until Aaron Schock’n’Awww shows up in a new Wingnut Wurlitzer media job, posing as another victim of the Great Obama Job-Killing Recession Crusade?…
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