Serial Liar Reports Bogus Fundraising Numbers, Says Implementing New Truth-Telling Procedures Will Be "Rocky"
Ed Martin gives voters an early taste of why he should be in charge of the federal budget:
Ed Martin (R) blamed computer problems for his campaign filing an erroneous campaign finance report that showed him outraising Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) in the last quarter of 2010.
According to the year-end report his campaign committee filed with the Federal Election Commission, Martin has $175,514 in cash on hand after raising $229,275 from Nov. 23 to Dec. 31...
"I assure you, it's not two hundred grand, I wish it was," Martin said when asked about his campaign's fourth-quarter total. "What our report is showing is about forty grand cash on hand."
Martin's report, which is publicly available on the FEC website, shows tens of thousands of dollars in donations being recorded on Nov. 23, the first day of the reporting period, when he hadn't yet announced his Senate candidacy...
Martin said he lost his House campaign's treasurer after the election and has since has to rely on accounting help from other staffers. "I've been unhappy with an employee who didn't get it done right and she's unhappy with the FEC," he said.
He said he plans to file an amended report but called the process "rocky."
The process of adding up how much money he actually has will be "rocky?" Yikes.
Martin was only off by a factor of five, and he only claimed to have raised $229k in a one-month period when he wasn't running for anything (including more than $45,000 in unitemized small dollar contributions), so it's really not fair to wonder why it took questions from the librul media for Ed to catch the problems.
My sources tell me Martin may have used his tea party crowd estimate multiplication table instead of the button on his calculator with the big plus sign, but “we’re trying to find enough stuff we can use to make [that conspiracy] plausible."
Martin's fictional fourth quarter report can be reviewed here.
