2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMike Pence used campaign funds to pay his mortgage — and it cost him an election
Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district. And then, scandal.
Campaign finance records from the 1990 effort showed that Pence, then 31, had been using political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife.
The spending had not been illegal at the time. But it stunned voters and undermined Pences strategy to portray the incumbent, Rep. Philip R. Sharp, as tainted by donations from special-interest political action committees.
It was a brazen act of hypocrisy, said Billy Linville, who was Sharps campaign manager. It was a bombshell, for sure. .?.?. Without question, he may well have won the election if it had not been for that.
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L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)katmondoo
(6,454 posts)Look up his record on women in Indiana
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Lots of used tampons in route to Indianapolis.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Oh well....is it any wonder that all politicians end up millionaires soon after getting into office.
John Poet
(2,510 posts)No matter what Republican might have been willing to be on his ticket,
there would have been SOMETHING...
Pence's politics were bad enough, without this too...