O'Donnell Campaign Confirms Payment to Candidate's Mother

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Source: The Daily Beast

Confirmed: Christine O'Donnell's campaign indeed paid out $3,500 to the candidate's mother, New Jersey resident Carole O'Donnell.

A spokesman for the O'Donnell campaign told CNN that "Carole O'Donnell, Christine's mother, did receive money for her services rendered on accounting and the FEC reporting for the campaign before the treasurer came onto the campaign."


Requests from The Daily Beast for additional information regarding the nature of the tasks performed and Carole O'Donnell's qualifications to perform them have gone unreturned since Beltway Beast first broke the news yesterday that the O'Donnell campaign had issued the payments.

O'Donnell's campaign finance issues are quickly piling up. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit that spotlights corruption in politics, released a statement today calling on the Delaware Attorney General to investigate O'Donnell's use of campaign funds to pay for personal utility bills and rent. O'Donnell has told reporters her rent is partially paid by the campaign because her home, which she shares with a campaign staffer, doubles as a campaign office


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Uses campaign money to pay her rent and now pays her mother campaign money.

There is just no end to this one.

Wonder what we will learn after the election.

You have to wonder how much of the DE Republican meltdown will help Sestak in PA as DE media bleeds into PA.