Paul In The Family
May 27, 2008 at 6:06 am
Washington Post reports that Ron Paul has been …
…putting relatives in a slew of key positions and paying them a total of $169,063, according to the latest campaign finance reports.
Paul’s granddaughter Valori Pyeatt helps organize fundraising receptions and has been paid $17,157. Another granddaughter, Laura Paul ($2,724), handles orders for Ron Paul merchandise. Grandson Matthew Pyeatt ($3,251) manages Paul’s MySpace profile. Daughter Peggy Paul ($2,224) helps with campaign logistics. The candidate’s sons Randall and Robert and his daughter Joy Paul LeBlanc have all been paid for campaign travel and for appearing as surrogates at political events.
Who keeps track of all these finances? Paul’s brother and daughter, naturally, who have been paid a combined $62,740 to handle the campaign’s accounting.
richarda said,
May 27, 2008 @ 7:57 am
KEY POSITIONS?! Except for the accountants, these are munchkin jobs!
There will be other stories this campaign season about massive staffs & consultants sucking candidates’ treasuries dry (there are every election year); so, which is worse - that, or making it a family affair and paying them minumum wage?
The various 4-figure sums are laughable, and combining the two accountants’ fees into one sum appears to be a deliberate attempt by the Post to artificialy create a dollar amount large enough to be viewable as more than “chump change”. (Besides, I know from personal experience that keeping track of campaign finance is a job of mind-boggling complexity, well worth hefty compensation - which THIS is NOT.)