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发帖数: 61690 | 1 California’s top Senate candidate Kamala Harris has been using her campaign
account to fund stays in upscale hotels and first-class airfares during her
nearly five-year tenure as state attorney general.
A review by The Hill of California campaign finance records reveals that
Harris’s expenditures follow a pattern: The Democratic candidate regularly
charges thousands of dollars in luxury travel and hotels to her campaign.
Meanwhile, Harris’s staffers usually take cheaper flights and stay in
hotels for closer to $250 a night, according to both inside sources and
state campaign finance reports.
A number of former Harris aides say that for them the most discomfiting
aspect of her use of campaign funds was the backdrop of austerity in
California’s government.
When Gov. Jerry Brown (D) took office in 2011 he introduced a culture of
frugality for himself, his staff and the government workers he now oversaw,
sources say.
When Harris was sworn in, California’s budget was in turmoil and
departments, including her own Department of Justice, were ordered to find
savings that included staff cuts.
“The environment was people were literally taking the cheap Southwest
flight,” said a source involved in the administration at the time. |
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