Taylor Throws Money Around, Breaks Law.
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I thought I was finished writing about Charles Taylor, but the man’s misdeeds just won’t stop hitting the news. Taylor smashed the conventional election wisdom by getting shellacked by Shuler despite outspending him by over 2 million dollars. From the N&O: “In the 11th District in Western North Carolina, Democrat Heath Shuler spent $1.7 million in upsetting Republican Rep. Charles Taylor, who spent $3.8 million. That includes $2.7 million that Taylor loaned his own campaign.”
Back in 2004, Taylor broke the law by refusing to file campaign expenditures to the Federal Elections Commission, and now they’re whacking the lumpy former Congressman with a big fine:
Washington Post: “Rep. Charles H. Taylor (R-N.C.) spent millions of his own money defending his House seat in recent years. Despite lending his campaign well over $2 million, Taylor lost to Democrat Heath Shuler in November. Now it appears he will have to shell out a bit more.
The Federal Election Commission announced last week that Taylor’s campaign committee had agreed to pay $91,000 in civil penalties for failing to file disclosures of personal campaign spending in the 2004 election cycle. The law requires candidates who are spending substantial sums of their own money on their campaigns to notify the commission and their opponents.”
O.K. That’s it. No more Taylor stories. Until the next one.
