Official With No Campaign Is Still Spending Campaign Cash

[Judi Lynn]

Official With No Campaign Is Still Spending Campaign Cash

By MICHAEL COOPER
Published: March 17, 2006



Chris Ramirez for The New York Times

ALBANY, March 16 —Howard D. Mills, New York State's superintendent of insurance, accepted $15,000 in campaign contributions last year even though he is not running for office, campaign filings show.

Mr. Mills, a former Republican state assemblyman from Orange County, continues to use his old Assembly campaign account to pay for meals, cellphone bills, flowers, purchases from Restoration Hardware and Borders Books, and to make the monthly $588.55 car payments on a Chrysler 300, the filings show.

Mr. Mills left the Assembly in 2004 after mounting an unsuccessful campaign to unseat Senator Charles E. Schumer. After Mr. Mills lost in a landslide, Gov. George E. Pataki appointed him to the $127,000-a-year insurance post, where he is responsible for regulating about a thousand firms that hold more than $2 trillion in assets.

In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Mills said that while he was not running for any office this year, and did not expect to seek office before 2008, he had kept his campaign account active because he planned to be a candidate again someday.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/nyregion/17commish.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[UpInArms]

1. $$ probably came from the insurance lobby

since that is what he is supposed to regulate.

hmmmm....

I bet he's doing a bang-up job for them :eyes:

[Richard Steele]

2. "I'm only embezzling because I need to keep my account active".

"Mr. Mills said that while he was not running
for any office this year, and did not
expect to seek office before 2008,
he had kept his campaign account active
because he planned to be a candidate again someday.

Man, is there a list of LAMEST criminal excuses?
Because that needs to be on it!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[habitual]

3. YEAH RIGHT

you hit the nail on the head.... Keep the damn money in an interest bearing account and don't keep spending it on your personal needs. LIAR, DIRTY CHEATING LIAR - Obviously a memeber of the culture of corruption.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Why does it not surprise me that he's a repuke?

Maybe because he's using campaign money for other uses? Wonder what the laws about this are?

[Roy]

5. Isn't it known that there are/were people who run for office...

for a living?