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"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees;
and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people." - Henry Clay, 1829
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Watchdogs, legislators say Mellow 'cash' checks show need for reformFrom the Scranton Times Tribune: Checks written to "cash" by state Sen. Robert J. Mellow's chief campaign committee exemplify why reform to Pennsylvania's campaign finance law is long overdue, leaders of watchdog groups said Tuesday. Tim Potts, president of Democracy Rising, and Eric Epstein, coordinator of RockThe Capital.org, said their groups might file complaints asking the Department of State to investigate the payments to cash. Campaign finance reports for Friends of Bob Mellow do not identify who received the payments, an omission in conflict with the explicit language of the state Campaign Finance Reporting Law. The law requires campaigns to identify who is paid for "each and every expenditure." Mr. Mellow continued Tuesday to ignore The Times-Tribune's efforts to interview him about 533 payments to cash that totaled more than $188,000 since Jan. 1, 2000. He did not return several telephone calls Tuesday after refusing to speak to the newspaper about his campaign finances for weeks. |
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