Sunday, June 13, 2004
Oh how the mighty have fallen....
Perrenial Presidential Candidate and consumer activist Ralph Nader is running up against a possible ethics violation.
According to today's Washington Post, Nader has been running his campaign offices out of the same building that until April housed a public charity that he created.
Apparently Nader's charity, Citizen Works has several connections to his presidential campaign. The charity's listed president,Theresa Amato,is also Nader's campaign manager. The office housing the campaign, the charity and other sub tenets has the same common receptionist for greeting visitors. FEC records show that Nader's campaign has paid rent to Citizen Works and Citizen Works' landlord.
The Post story cites several legal and campaign finance experts that voice skepticism that the arrangement is legal. The Nader campaign claims no wrongdoing.
Nader has trumpeted himself as the champion of consumers and the "anti-Dem/GOP". He's claimed to be the guy who has the integrity and the honesty that the other candidates and the parties don't have. If one of the other candidates had done something like this I have a tough time believing Nader wouldn't have used it to point out that he's better and different.
This story reminds me a little of the maladies of Rush Limbaugh, although not to the same degree. Both scream about certain "values" and "virtues" that people must adhere to..but in the end are just hypocrites.
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According to today's Washington Post, Nader has been running his campaign offices out of the same building that until April housed a public charity that he created.
Apparently Nader's charity, Citizen Works has several connections to his presidential campaign. The charity's listed president,Theresa Amato,is also Nader's campaign manager. The office housing the campaign, the charity and other sub tenets has the same common receptionist for greeting visitors. FEC records show that Nader's campaign has paid rent to Citizen Works and Citizen Works' landlord.
The Post story cites several legal and campaign finance experts that voice skepticism that the arrangement is legal. The Nader campaign claims no wrongdoing.
Nader has trumpeted himself as the champion of consumers and the "anti-Dem/GOP". He's claimed to be the guy who has the integrity and the honesty that the other candidates and the parties don't have. If one of the other candidates had done something like this I have a tough time believing Nader wouldn't have used it to point out that he's better and different.
This story reminds me a little of the maladies of Rush Limbaugh, although not to the same degree. Both scream about certain "values" and "virtues" that people must adhere to..but in the end are just hypocrites.
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