Rep. Bob Ney’s (R-OH) not the only candidate spending a ton of his campaign cash on outside advice. Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) spent over $60,000 on accounting fees between January and April. He still owes his accountants, Robert Watkins & Co., $40,000.
On top of that, he’s got an outstanding $18,000 bill with his attorneys, the D.C. law firm Patton Boggs. That’s a lot of money for a house campaign to spend on professional fees.
We don’t know what all that money is buying him — Renzi’s office didn’t call us back. It could be related to an old scrape with the FEC: last October, the commission fined Renzi $1,000 for failing to properly report nearly $100,000 in campaign donations the previous year.
