Texas Watchdog: Congressional candidate Robert ‘Beto’ O’Rourke - who criticized opponent Reyes’ campaign payments to family - has paid own family/business $22K
Congressional candidate Robert ‘Beto’ O’Rourke - who
criticized opponent Reyes’ campaign payments to family - has paid own
family/business $22K
The scathing report
detailing the payments of U.S. Congress members to families was a gift
to Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, a former El Paso city council member and
Democratic challenger to U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes in the far West Texas 16th congressional district.
The
investigative study
found that Reyes spent campaign funds on his own reimbursement for
expenses related to his campaign in 2008, as well as feathering his own
family nest with payments to relatives for fundraising, travel expenses
and political contributions. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington compiled the report.
"This shows that Reyes is working for himself, his family and those close to him," O'Rourke
told the El Paso Times.
"It makes it more clear than ever that we need reform in Washington,
D.C. He paid his brother, Chuy. He paid himself. He paid his niece. He
paid his niece's husband. The whole family was involved."
Reyes defended his expenditures, saying that he was pleased to
have family that could help him. Which means apparently that he thinks
such a practice is fine.
But while O’Rourke was speaking about reform in Washington, he
forgot to mention his own payments to his business and family members of
$22,800.
