One of the big lessons of dealing with a political scandal is that you want your first story to be one you don’t have to drop completely after two or three days. But that’s what’s happened to Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN) and his piggybank non-profit, the Frontier Foundation. Frontier has raised over $800,000 for scholarships for deserving youth and managed not to award a single scholarship in its six years of existence.
Last week Buyer’s spokesperson claimed, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, that Frontier wasn’t connected to him. But now he’s admitting that for all intents and purposes he controls it. And a lot of the quarter million the outfit has spent so far seems to have gone to golf junkets with political contributors.
