Today’s Deseret News has a piece on Candidates Spending.
Sometimes candidates do unusual things with the hard-earned donations that they often say are needed desperately to get out their message.
That includes paying for the candidate’s cable TV at home.
Or for hiring the candidate’s relatives.
Or paying to fix the candidate’s car.
Or buying gifts. Or a lot of food.
Or even for giving large chunks of money away to others.
Utah candidates for Congress have done all of that and more this election cycle, according to disclosure forms. Such spending comes as some candidates try to economize even by declaring that paid workers are contractors to avoid payroll taxes.
You can see financial disclosures at these sites:
