Those Right Wingers And Their Deficit Spending

By Kleinheider Posted on August 7, 2008 at 1:16 pm

The Brainstem doesn’t see how the Tennessee Center For Policy Research can gripe about the financial solvency of First Lady Andrea Conte when they themselves are no stranger to getting behind on their bills:

The venture, to sell leaves from around the Governor’s mansion dipped in gold for $25 bucks a pop, got off to a good start but has since puttered out. But what is interesting, is that while Drew Johnson criticizes Conte for not being financially solvent with her non-profit venture; his own venture is having trouble staying in the black.

According to financial disclosure forms (pdf) obtained from Goldstar.com, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research operated in 2006 with a net loss of over 23K dollars…nearly 13K more than Andrea Conte has come up short on her effort to pay for restorations of the Governor’s mansion. Of course, its gotta be expensive to pay someone to sit in front of Al Gore’s electric meter 24/7, so its understandable why they might be a little light on cash.

UPDATE: Drew Johnson points out that while TCPR did run a deficit that year, they also started the year with some $28,000 in the bank. So while they did go 23K in the hole, they had that money in the bank to make it up leaving them some $5,000 in the bank.

SEE ALSO: Drew Johnson on the radio.

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