Pelosian Ethics?
Via Hot Air »House gets unusual raise.
The House wants to increase Members’ office budgets next fiscal year by almost 15 percent, partly because 2010 is an election year and lawmakers anticipate a surge in franked mail.
In a recently released budget request, the House Chief Administrative Officer asked appropriators to raise the Members’ Representational Allowances — which fund everything needed to run offices, including salaries, travel and supplies — by $90 million, citing increases “due to the election year cycle.”
Never mind laws that overtly prohibit the use of public funds for campaigns (outside of the legal matching funds approved by the FEC). Why let a little thing like the law get in the way of winning an election?
There is a better way.
