Lately we’ve seen some very nicely printed campaign literature coming from Gifford’s office. It is shamelessly self promoting but the quality of the paper and full color printing is in line with the large amount of money Gifford’s has raised from Washington PAC’s, but wait, if you take the time to read the small print at the back of the pamphlets they tell a different story. The disclosure tells us that the literature was printed and mailed at taxpayer expense not Gifford’s.
How can Gabby get away with printing and mailing campaign literature using your tax dollars? The technical term is “franking” and Gabby has become an expert at it. She is one of the top six members of Congress in tax payer dollars spent in franking. At the end of 2007 the Congressional Records show Gabby has spent $80,000.00 of our hard earned taxpayer dollars in self promotion and judging by the three mailers we have seen so far in 2008 I expect the total number will exceed $100,000.00 by a large margin.
In 2006 Gifford’s campaign theme was change, sound familiar? The only change we have seen thus far is her extraordinary ability to waste taxpayer dollars and the “quid pro quo” she owes the Washington PAC’s.
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