Our Revolution/Ocasio endorsed Hawaii candidate who used campaign donations to pay his rent [View all]

[John Gruff]

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The group Our Revolution publicly endorses Kaniela Ing for Hawaii's First District (HI-01).
Yesterday, Ms. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited Mr. Ing, whom she endorsed:

As reported in Roll Call, Mr. Ing was fined back in June because he "used $2,125 to pay rent and $219 to make a payment on his domestic partner’s credit card account. He deposited a $2,000 campaign check into his personal account and never reported it, according to the commission."

Experts were puzzled by the fact that Ing avoided jail:

"Ing avoided jail time despite the fact Commissioner Gregory Shoda said there were previous cases where far fewer false reports warranted such a penalty.

“The level or the number of violations is astounding basically,” Shoda said. “Every single report is incorrect.”"

Our Revolution, an offshoot of the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign, often rails against "corrupt" centrist and Left-center candidates.

As I type this, Mr. Ing is currently in fourth place as primary results trickle in: https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/hawaii-house-district-1-primary-election