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Ron Johnson. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America / (CC BY-SA)
Six years is a long time, and once a candidate is re-elected to another six years, what was unseemly before the election becomes ‘you should have read the fine print, pal.’ So it is with Sen. Ron Johnson. Lawrence Andrea and Daniel Bice report Ron Johnson pockets $400,000 from donors for old campaign loans despite saying he wouldn’t do so:
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is paying himself back hundreds of thousands of dollars for loans he made to his prior Senate campaigns, despite claiming he wouldn’t seek to recoup the money from donors.
The multi-millionaire Oshkosh Republican received $400,000 from his campaign account in early May, according to his latest filing with the Federal Elections Commission. The payments were made in two installments of $150,000 each and two more of $60,000 and $40,000, all on May 3, for loans from his successful 2010 and 2016 elections.
The repayments are legal.
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But Johnson, a former plastics executive, previously said that he wouldn’t seek to repay the $8.4 million in outstanding loans he claimed his campaign owes him for loans in his 2010 and 2016 campaigns.
“I don’t have any expectation to get paid back,” Johnson told Insider Inc. on May 17 when asked about a comment on his financial disclosure form that noted “all funds to prior campaigns have been deemed loans and suitable for repayment.”
In fact, Johnson had begun to recoup some of those loans two weeks before he made the remarks to the Insider, according to the latest FEC report released this past Saturday.
Expectations change, right? What’s an expectation, anyway, except a belief that something will happen or be the case? Whose belief was this, by the way: Johnson’s or yours?
If Johnson meant truly that he would not use campaign money to pay back his own loans, he could have said no, he would not. He said he did not have any expectation, a reply that connotes doing what he wanted to do while hoping others would look away.
Those who thought otherwise should have read Johnson’s fine print.
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