Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) will be using his campaign funds to pay for a lawsuit he has filed against part of the Affordable Care Act, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
In January, Johnson announced his plan to file the lawsuit, which aims to prevent members of Congress and their staff from receiving employer contributions to their health care plans. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) responded to the idea by issuing it a statement calling the lawsuit an “unfortunate political stunt.”
A retainer agreement between Johnson’s campaign and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty requires the institute’s legal work to be paid for, the Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday, but so far the organization has yet to submit a bill.
“We haven’t sent a bill because, as a public interest firm that normally does not bill or is paid only at the conclusion of a matter, we tend to bill on a longer cycle than a commercial law firm might,” Rick Esenberg, the institute’s president, told the newspaper.
Haha! Clearly Johnson and ‘someone’ at the Institute know how to funnel campaign funds into private hands - really, you cannot make this up.
Conceeding the fact that his one term is near done, why keep the money around.
Ron Johnson looted his company to pay for his campaign. What a jerk.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
“The two were responding to a news release from the liberal group One Wisconsin Now that said it had reviewed Johnson’s campaign finance reports but found no indication of payments to or obligations for WILL.”
Of course it took a ‘liberal group’ to investigate this and actually check Johnson’s previous claims with his actual campaign finance records. At least the Journal-Sentinel bothered to report on the work done by One Wisconsin Now. I suppose this way the Journal-Sentinel can claim some sort of journalistic integrity, while the Journal-Sentinel editorial board can claim this is just an example of petty muckracking from a ‘liberal group.’
OK, let me guess why a place called the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty doesn’t worry about its billing - they have a Scrooge McDuckian sized vault full of Koch money?