Rep. cori BuSh. That’s the way I spell her name from now on.
Not only she is a far, far leftist, police-defunding, Israel (and, I would bet, more generally Jew) hating sack of something that wouldn’t even grace my garbage pail, but she seems to also be a hypocrite who doesn’t want you or me to have police protection, but is happy to pay a lot of money for her own private protection…..to her husband, from campaign funds.
And now that she is being challenged on it by a conservative group, The Committee To Defeat The President (CDP)…
…well, let me show you by providing excepts from James Lynch’s article at dailycaller.com (which I urge you to read in its entirety):
Democratic Missouri Rep. Cori Bush is threatening a conservative attorney who filed complaints about her congressional campaign’s payments to her husband, the Daily Caller has learned.
David Mitrani, counsel for Cori Bush for Congress, wrote a letter Friday to lawyer Dan Backer, demanding that he retract complaints over Bush’s payments to her husband that he filed on behalf of the Committee to Defeat the President (CDP), a conservative activist group opposed to President Joe Biden.
Bush’s Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings from the 2022 campaign cycle show that Cortney Merritts, her husband, was paid more than $60,000 for security services despite him lacking a security license in St. Louis, where her congressional district is located, or in Washington, D.C., according to Fox News. Bush for Congress’ paid Merritts for “security services” on five occasions from January to March 2023, FEC filings show.
Her campaign also paid her husband $2,500 once for “security services” and $2,500 six times for “wage expenses” from April to June 2023, her latest FEC filings indicate. CDP filed an FEC complaint in March, urging the commission to look into Bush’s payments to Merritts, and a supplementary FEC complaint in July arguing that by describing the more recent payments as “wage expenses,” Bush had “walked into a legal trap of her making.”
“She’s either falsifying FEC reports that her husband illegally provided security services he’s not licensed to provide, or he did illegally provide them and she violated the law prohibiting paying for illegal things,” the complaint reads.
Campaigns “may use campaign funds to pay for bona fide, legitimate, professional personal security personnel” to protect themselves from potential threats, the FEC ruled in 2021, according to Roll Call. It’s unclear whether Merritts falls under the “professional” designation for campaign security personnel, though both D.C. and St. Louis County require private security personnel to be licensed.
The Mitrani letter, and the response letter from CDP’s lawyer, Dan Backer, are included in Mr. Lynch’s article.
Is cori BuSh busted? Yes, of course she is. But will anything be done about it? Will our wonderful, “neutral” mainstream media (with few exceptions) go after her for what seems, clearly, to be paying off her husband?
Well, they didn’t do it to another “squad” member, ilhan omar – who, for a variety of reasons should be in jail instead of congress – so don’t count on it happening to BuSh.
Wrong party, you see.
