Post by CMF Newsman on Apr 17, 2012 8:08:09 GMT -5
A study by a Washington, D.C.,-based nonprofit found that three Tennessee Congress members used campaign money to pay salaries to their relatives.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/ISyWby) that the three were among 82 members whose families benefited from their positions in government over the past two election cycles.
In Tennessee, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann paid his college-aged son $4,652 from campaign funds to accompany him on the campaign trail during the 2010 election cycle.
U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan, of Knoxville, paid his sister, son and niece a combined $7,600 for work on his financial disclosures, and U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn paid her daughter $301 for administrative and fundraising services.
www.wrcbtv.com/story/17463885/3-congress-members-paid-salaries-to-relatives
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/ISyWby) that the three were among 82 members whose families benefited from their positions in government over the past two election cycles.
In Tennessee, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann paid his college-aged son $4,652 from campaign funds to accompany him on the campaign trail during the 2010 election cycle.
U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan, of Knoxville, paid his sister, son and niece a combined $7,600 for work on his financial disclosures, and U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn paid her daughter $301 for administrative and fundraising services.
www.wrcbtv.com/story/17463885/3-congress-members-paid-salaries-to-relatives