Bait and Switch Campaign Funding

Tom Tomorrow posted a bit at his website about this NYT article revealing a couple GOP members who are advertising for charitable donations, and then funneling the money into their own politcal campaigns.

aides to Mr. DeLay, the House majority leader from Texas, acknowledged that part of the money would go to pay for late-night convention parties, a luxury suite during President Bush’s speech at Madison Square Garden and yacht cruises.

Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, is planning to hold a concert and a reception in conjunction with the convention as a way of raising money for AIDS charities.

It won’t be long before they catch a few of the Democrats doing this same kind of wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing fund raising. I will say it right now: “Any politician that uses this tactic and does not disclose the donors and donations will not get my vote.”