Herron Campaign Still Trying To Show Work On Fuzzy Disclosure Math
Posted on July 17, 2009 at 8:06 amTom Humphrey gets further into the mess that is Roy Herron’s gubernatorial campaign financial report:
In a news release sent out a day before the report was filed, Herron declared that he had about $650,000. To reach that figure, the campaign counted about $42,248 in expenditures by Herron’s Senate campaign that would be beneficial to the gubernatorial campaign.
Herron said Thursday that his staff conferred with bureau officials and he thought the $42,248 would actually be counted as part of the gubernatorial campaign but the bureau software program did not do so.
In hindsight, Herron said that the news release should have included an explanatory note, but the intent was to be as open as possible.
“I don’t think Tennesseans disagree with a campaign or a candidate who discloses more than required,” Herron said. “I think they appreciate the openness.”
At the time the expenditures were made, some in the first days of June, Herron had not filed to run for governor. He filed on June 11. The expenditures would have been valid for either a gubernatorial campaign or a re-election campaign to the Senate in 2012, he said.
Drew Rawlins, executive director of the bureau, said it is completely legal to transfer money from a legislative campaign account to a gubernatorial account. Using money from one directly to benefit the other is a “gray area” of the law, he said.
“From what I was told by the Herron campaign people, these would have been legitimate Senate expenses if he had not chosen to run for governor. He has apparently chosen to include them in his press releases as gubernatorial expenses,” Rawlins said.
Rawlins said he sees nothing in the situation that would warrant seeking to penalize the Herron campaign.
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7 Responses to “Herron Campaign Still Trying To Show Work On Fuzzy Disclosure Math”
Slick Roy always has an excuse, doesn’t he? Aren’t we tired of these double-talking politicians that try to spin everything? I want a governor that will tell me the truth and tell it to me directly.
“I don’t think Tennesseans disagree with a campaign or a candidate who discloses more than required,” Herron said. “I think they appreciate the openness.” WTF? Does he really think people buy that BS?
Talk to people that work in the legislature and they will tell you that everyone almost pukes whenever Herron speaks because he always begins with “I’m not out to harm your bill.”
Total B.S. Of course he’s out to kill a bill. My friends up there tell me he has the worst case of say one thing and do another that they’ve ever seen.
He thinks he can lie his way out of anything.
Harping, repetitive words from a few sneering trolls take nothing away from the hard work and qualities of Roy Herron — or those of any other candidate.
Elections are won by the ballot votes of many, not the on-line notes of a few.
Get real, Louie. Everyone knows you are one of those little boys working for the Herron campaign.
Only some boy would write that overwrought shit about “the ballot votes of the many.”
Bet me $500 that Herron is still in this thing this time next year. I dare ya.
Hah! Looks like I hit a trollinista’s nerve.
Sorry, Trollinista, I don’t make bets with trolls disguised by “tighties” — or fedoras.
Scared to bet, huh, little boy?
Well, better tell Herron to quit lying . . .
If he can.