{"id":4312,"date":"2010-12-30T04:24:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T08:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2010-12-30T04:24:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T08:24:08","slug":"christine-odonnell-fed-probe-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/12\/30\/christine-odonnell-fed-probe-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine O’Donnell: Not A Witch, But Possibly A Jailbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell may have lost her U.S. Senatorial campaign big time, but she isn’t through entertaining us. No … Fox News hasn’t hired her. Not yet, anyway. But she’s currently in the news because the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI are investigating her alleged misuse of campaign funds<\/a> for rent and other personal expenses.<\/p>\n

One former O\u2019Donnell staffer, Kristin Murray, recorded an automated phone call for the Delaware Republican Party just before the primary, accusing O\u2019Donnell of “living on campaign donations \u2014 using them for rent and personal expenses, while leaving her workers unpaid and piling up thousands in debt.<\/p>\n

Another former aide, David Keegan, said he became concerned about O\u2019Donnell\u2019s 2008 campaign finances as she fell behind on bills and had no apparent source of income besides political contributions. He submitted an affidavit to CREW alleging that she used campaign money to cover meals, gas, a bowling outing, and rent to a landlord, Brent Vasher.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Christine O’Donnell’s response is to call the Fed investigation “thug tactics.”<\/a> And my response is to write a limerick: <\/p>\n

Christine O’Donnell: Not A Witch, But Possibly A Jailbird
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Here’s some news that’s delightfully rich:
\nSeems that gal who denies she’s a witch
\nUnlawfully spent
\nCampaign cash on her rent,
\nWhich could land her a Fed prison hitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell may have lost her U.S. Senatorial campaign big time, but she isn’t through entertaining us. No … Fox News hasn’t hired her. Not yet, anyway. But she’s currently in the news because the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI are investigating her alleged misuse of campaign funds for rent and other personal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,1398,21,6,7,3],"tags":[1473,192,2884,1416,194,501],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-christine-odonnell","category-election-satire","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","tag-campaign-funds","tag-campaign-satire","tag-christine-odonnell","tag-delaware","tag-election-humor","tag-senate-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4334,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}