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More On How Herron Got To 650K

By Kleinheider Posted on July 16, 2009 at 11:53 am

Jeff Woods on that 40K from his Senate account that went towards the press release number:

To make it to that magic number, Herron had to count roughly $40,000 from his Senate account that he’d already spent on campaign expenses.

According to the Registry of Election Finance, Herron contends he spent that $40,000 not on gubernatorial campaign costs (that would be illegal) but on generic consulting fees that could have been attributed to a Senate campaign if he was running for that office again, which he isn’t. Whatever. “It’s a semantics thing,” the Registry’s Drew Rawlins tells Pith.

Indeed it is. A little too obviously, Herron was trying to snooker the media into reporting that he’d matched McWherter’s fundraising. It worked for a little while too.

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7 Responses to “More On How Herron Got To 650K”

  1. The OG Ben writes
    July 16th, 2009 12:08 pm

    Total bulls$$t. Herron ran for re-election last year. Why would he be paying consultants this year for his Senate re-election campaign, which won’t happen until 2012.

    TREF is a totally toothless enforcement entity if they buy this lame-ass excuse.

  2. Harrison writes
    July 16th, 2009 1:43 pm

    “Generic consulting fees?” Can someone please itemize, either on a blog or in these comments, exactly what that $40k was used for?

  3. Donna Locke writes
    July 16th, 2009 1:45 pm

    Harrison, I think some of that went for the “generic consulting” on the blogs.

  4. The Real Mustache writes
    July 16th, 2009 2:24 pm

    As predicted, more lies from Team Herron. Little Lamb said yesterday that it was used for gubernatorial campaign, then discovered that was illegal. So did he as Roy taught him - he lied. P.S. Team Herron is watching…the removed “Caucus Chair” from Roy’s Facebook Page. If you are reading, please respond to our questions!

  5. Johnsonville Dan writes
    July 16th, 2009 4:55 pm

    Herron’s campaign finance filings are like an onion. And the deeper you peel into them, the more they reek. Take his Senate campaign account report. (You know, the one where he claims there were $40,000 in “generic” consulting fees on behalf of his gubernatorial campaign. Generic, my ass.)

    Looking at his Senate expenditures just raises more questions. For example, the Registry of Election Finance’s online records show that there’s not any detail at all for the single largest expenditure, over $8,700. It’s just denoted with a comma (”,”) and described simply as “services.” Well, what kind of services?

    The second largest expense, over $5,200, is to the IRS. Is this for his gubernatorial campaign? How can Herron pay the IRS for his gubernatorial campaign out of his Senate account. I’ve managed over a dozen legislative campaigns, and this is the squirreliest reporting I’ve ever seen.

  6. Odom's Tanning Bed writes
    July 16th, 2009 5:42 pm

    Why’s Herron having to pay the IRS?

  7. The OG Ben writes
    July 16th, 2009 6:36 pm

    We deserve answers. Herron can’t be trusted.

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