{"id":45330,"date":"2022-04-20T10:10:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45330"},"modified":"2022-04-20T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:10:50","slug":"what-corruption-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45330","title":{"rendered":"What Corruption?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, The Conservative Review<\/a> reported that according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, Democrat South Carolina Representative James Clyburn has distributed more than $200,000 in campaign funds to entities controlled by his relatives.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, has made 15 rental payments to a company controlled by a daughter and son-in-law, and 39 direct payments to another daughter and son-in-law. Clyburn\u2019s grandson also appears to be a salaried employee, and has received twice-monthly payments from the Clyburn campaign since October 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Overall, Friends of Jim Clyburn has paid Clyburn\u2019s family members and entities they control $236,412 since 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clyburn\u2019s office did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment on the matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clyburn is one of several members of Congress who have funneled money to relatives through campaign accounts in recent years. Democratic Connecticut Rep. Jahana Hayes paid<\/a> her adult children more than $35,000 out of campaign funds since entering Congress in 2021. Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters paid<\/a> her daughter more than $100,000 during the 2018 election cycle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Republican Idaho Rep. Russ Fulcher paid<\/a> family members $69,000 during the 2020 election cycle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Actually, this doesn’t bother me as much as some of the other corruption in Washington does. It shouldn’t be a problem for a candidate to do business with or hire family members. However, those business and family members should be paid according to the going rate for the services they provide. For instance, a family member who is not a ‘volunteer’ stuffing envelopes (do they still do that?) in an office should be paid what people stuffing envelopes are usually paid. For that person to receive a $100,000 a year salary is a problem. The bigger picture is that what we are seeing is how someone middle class can come to Washington to ‘serve’ and leave a few years later as a millionaire with millionaire family members. That is the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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