C.Q. Politics – $5K ‘C Street’ Relay? Pickering-Barbour-Vitter
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s political action committee reported giving $5,000 to Sen. David Vitter, R-La., the same week it accepted an identical amount from former Rep. Chip Pickering of Mississippi.
Pickering, like Vitter, is a conservative Christian Republican accused of having an extramarital affair linked to the “C Street” townhouse in Southeast Washington that is at the center of a spate of GOP sex scandals.
Pickering’s otherwise dormant CHIP PAC made its first donation of the year to Haley’s PAC on Aug. 15 — four days after the governor gave to Vitter’s 2010 re-election campaign — according to a Sept. 20 filing with the Federal Election Commission. The two checks comprise all of the month’s activities for Haley’s PAC, which has just $13,281.37 in the bank and has made only one other contribution this year.
C.Q. Politics
9/23/9
Magnolia Tribune
