Because it’s not corruption when a Democrat does it.
Via Free Beacon:
Embattled Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has spent more than $131,000 in campaign funds to pay for luxury apartments in Austin, Texas, since her election to the Texas State Senate in 2008, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.
While such use of campaign funds islegal in Texas, the amounts involved and properties rented may undermine Davis’s campaign persona of a working class single mom, observers tell the Free Beacon.
Davis, whose permanent address is in Fort Worth, lists government accountability as a primary issue on her campaign website, which says she opposes elected officials who “have turned state agencies and programs into their own personal piggy bank, granting favors to their friends, rewarding donors, and furthering their own interests.”
First elected to the Texas State Senate in 2008, Davis has expensed upwards of $2,000 in monthly rent each legislative session.
Davis lived at the Monarch during the 81st session, from January 13, 2009, to June 1, 2009.
The residence is described as a “luxury community,” with “five-star resort amenities.” The total amount of rent and utilities paid to the Monarch during the session was$13,882.07.