This is Lynn Jenkins, she does not represent us
The Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org has a page dedicated to Mystery PACs. The type of Political Action Committee comes about from a surplus of campaign cash. A politician moves money into "separate pot of money to help other politicians," according to OpenSecrets.org.
Lynn Jenkins seems to be getting close to the point where she will have her own Mystery PAC. Her campaign donated money, ostensibly raised to assure her reelection, to other candidates. Here's the list as of today, courtesy of OpenSecrets.org at http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/expend.php?cycle=2010&cid=N00029077&type=I.
Ann Marie Buerkle for Congress, Syracuse, NY................ $1,000.Bachus For Congress Cmte, Birmingham, AL.....................$1,371.Bass Victory Cmte, Concord, NH.......................................$1,000.Benishek for Congress, Crystal Falls, MI.............................$1,000.Steve Chabot (R-OH).........................................................$1,000.Charlie Dent for Congress, Allentown, PA..........................$2,000.Diane Black for Congress, GALLATIN, TN .......................$1,000.Djou For Hawaii, HONOLULU, HI.................................... $2,500.Duffy for Congress, Ashland, WI....................................... $1,000.Steve Fincher (R-elect-TN) ............................................... $1,000.Friends of Dave Reichert, Bellevue, WA............................ $2,000.Friends of David Harmer, ELK GROVE, CA..................... $1,000.Friends of Joe Heck, Las Vegas, NV................................. $1,000.Huizenga for Congress, ZEELAND, MI............................ $1,000.Jaime Herrera for Congress, RIDGEFIELD, WA................$2,000.Jim Gerlach for Congress Cmte, Uwchland, PA..................$2,000.Joseph Cao for Congress, NEW ORLEANS, LA.................$2,000.Justin Amash for Congress, GRAND RAPIDS, MI..............$1,000.Kansans for Huelskamp, Fowler, KS................................. $1,000.Ken Calvert for Congress Cmte, Riverside, CA....................$1,000.Kristi for Congress, SIOUX FALLS, SD..............................$2,000.Lee Terry for Congress, Omaha, NE...................................$2,000.Lungren for Congress, Elk Grove, CA..................................$2,000.Martha Roby For Congress, Montgomery, AL......................$2,000.Mary Bono Mack Cmte, Palm Springs, CA...........................$2,000.Morgan Griffith ... Congress, CHRISTIANSBURG, VA.........$2,000.National Republican Congressional Cmte, WASHINGTON....$185,033Pompeo for Congress, WICHITA, KS ..................................$2,000.Rick Crawford for Congress, CEDARTOWN, GA................$1,000.Robert Hurt for Congress, CHATHAM, VA.........................$2,000.Sandy Adams for Congress, ORLANDO, FL........................$1,000.Southerland for Congress, LYNN HAVEN, FL....................$1,000.Tiberi for Congress, Columbus, OH.....................................$2,000.Tim Burns For Congress, EIGHTY FOUR, PA.....................$500.Vicky Hartzler for Congress, HARRISONVILLE, MO.........$1,000.Walberg for Congress, Tipton, MI........................................$1,000.Waorski for Congress, Mishawaka, IN.................................$1,000.Yoder for Congress, OVERLAND PARK, KS.....................$2,000.
There was also for $209 to California Republican Kevin McCarthy was for a PDA device, that' a personal digital assistant for those not in the know. I guess the Radio Shack was closed so Jenkins bought the PDA from McCarthy. Lynn Jenkins spent $237,404 contributed to her campaign on other Republican Candidates. I'd like to suggest that the new Mystery PAC is the candidates' campaign committees.
Cheryl Hudspeth raised $12,075 while Lynn Jenkins gave other Republican candidates for Congress $237,404. I've said it before and I'll say it again campaign finance is legalized money laundering. When Jenkins can funnel more than a quarter of her campaign committee's expenditures to other candidates then there is no accountability. Voters in those other districts don't know where all this money comes from.
The really rich folks that Lynn Jenkins serves, like Kansas' homegrown tycoons - the Koch Brothers, can and have directed their Koch Industries Political Action Committee to give Jenkins $5,000 and then the Koch Cash gets distributed to other Political Action Committees. That was another $40,000, of which Jenkins took $35,500. Now Jenkins is turning around and spreading cash on Republican candidates like farmers spread manure over fields. Everyone's hoping something will grow.
Now Jenkins is urging that the Koch brothers, and others in the top 2% of American taxpayers The Washington Post is reporting that this cockamamie plan, which Jenkins supports, will add $36 Billion to the deficit next year. The price tag for the Fat Cat's Boondoggle will be $700 billion over ten years, according to President Obama, as reported by Reuters. Looks like the legalized money laundering may just be in the rinse cycle.
