Cynthia Davis Pays Personal Tax Debts with Campaign Funds!
This just in from the Missouri Democratic Party:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GOP Lawmaker Pays Personal Tax Debts with Campaign Funds
~Rep. Cynthia Davis’ Illegal Activity Reported to Ethics Commission, Possible Income Tax Evasion Reported to Department of Revenue~
Jefferson City, MO --- The Missouri Democratic Party today filed an ethics complaint against Republican State Representative Cynthia Davis of O’Fallon for using campaign money to pay her own property taxes on a Jefferson City residence. The complaint argues that on multiple occasions Rep. Davis has illegally converted campaign funds to personal use, including paying her real estate taxes, purchasing an automobile, and making deposits into a personal bank account.
On Jan. 8, 2004, Cynthia Davis for the House Committee paid the Cole County Collector $1,084.33 for real estate taxes on a residential property in Jefferson City, according to the committee’s April 2004 Quarterly Report filed April 15, 2004. Ms. Davis’ 2003 and 2004 Personal Finance Disclosure Statements lists that residence as being owned by Ms. Davis and her husband Bernie.
Missouri Campaign Finance Law (Section 130.034 RSMo.) strictly prohibits converting any campaign contribution to personal use. The law is designed to prevent the theft and illegal use of campaign funds. Purposeful violations of this provision are punishable by up to one year in jail.
In addition to paying her property taxes with campaign contributions, the ethics complaint also details other instances when Rep. Davis converted campaign money to personal use, including:
· On July 7, 2002, Cynthia Davis for the House Committee purchased an S-10 truck from a Bryan Luckey of Hannibal, Missouri for $2,850.00. There are no other expenditures (except for licensing and sales tax expenditures) related to the purchase, operation or use of vehicle, until a single entry for “motor fuel/travel” on December 1, 2004. During that intervening two and ½ year period, there were no expenditures for basic motor vehicle expenses, including gas, oil, repairs, personal property tax payments or state mandated insurance. This inexplicable lack of other auto expenses strongly suggests that this vehicle has been converted to personal use by Ms. Davis or others in violation of Missouri criminal law.
· On January 23, 2003, Cynthia Davis for the House Committee paid the Missouri State Credit Union $250. In violation of the law, no purpose for this expenditure was provided. Furthermore, Missouri State Credit Union is not the official depository of the Committee. These facts, coupled with the above pattern of activity, strongly suggests that no legitimate committee purpose for this expenditure exists and that these monies were converted to the personal use of Cynthia Davis or some third person. Under these circumstances, a criminal conversion of campaign funds has occurred.
Because the criminal conversion of these campaign funds would constitute income to Ms. Davis, the Missouri Democratic Party has forwarded this complaint to the Missouri Department of Revenue’s Criminal Violations Bureau, which investigates income tax evasion. The bureau is asked to investigate whether real estate and personal property taxes paid by the committee were illegally deducted on Ms. Davis’ personal income tax return.
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Cynthia: No Mercy for Moralizing Criminals
Post Dispatch on Cynthia's Theft of Campaign Cash Scandal
From today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
trying to find the expenditure
Okay, am I missing it in her MO Ethics Report?
http://www.moethics.state.mo.us/Ethics/CampaignFinance/CFCommitteeInfo1.aspx?MECID=C010984&Year=2005
I want to link to it on Blog Saint Louis and I can't find the actual expenditure--which makes it more fun to do.
Cynthia Documents
Here are the real estate taxes paid to the Cole County Collector (third page).
Here is where she says she and her husband own the Cole County house. (fourth page)
Here is the pick-up truck she bought, put never spent another dime on to maintain or operate. (fourth page)
Here is a third unexplained expenditure to the Missouri State Credit Union for which no purpose was provided and which probably was converted to personal use. (third page)
gracias
It doesn't lessen her problems, but that isn't the 2005 report--it's 2004's. Still illegal though!
Davis: OB/GYN's = Rapists
Davis (19) is a personal favorite of mine. Who can forget the time when she tried to rule Chuck Graham out of order because he was speaking without standing at the microphone? Who can forget the time she blamed the need for Medicaid on the "greedy" Catholic Church? Well, late at night, towards the end of the much discussed midwifery bill, Cynthia summed up her feelings towards OB/GYN's. Here is her quote:
It’s a core belief that’s in the heart of the mother…we’re not making anybody have a home birth. It’s totally optional. We have to look at what we are doing to ourselves. There are some people that want a highly interventive birth, I have a friend who wanted a C-section for no reason-just because she wanted it…But then you’ve got other women who have gone to the hospital, and the experience they’ve had after they’re undressed and poked and prodded and tubes and tools in every opening there is, and it feels very similar to being raped.
--April 20, 2005 Debate on HB 36 at approximately 11:35 p.m.
I'd like to know why Cynthia is friends with people who just can't wait to get a C-section.
Anyway, one female legislator summed up her outrage by saying, "The births of my three kids were the happiest three days of my life. How dare she compare that to a sexual assault."
How true.
--Mo
Not just rapists but potential murderers, too!
Missouri has it's own Tom DeLay
The ethics committee should hold this rep up for all to see and give it to her good. What good are rules if they are broken but no punishment is meted out. Who IS the ethics committee? I would like to call or send an e-mail. They need to know we are WATCHING them and they should do their job. I don't care if it's a republi-con or a democrat I'm sick of them all. Ethics is not a choice in politics but a trust provided to them by the citizens of Missouri.
"Shame on them the first time but shame on me if I let them do it twice".
Cynthia's Midwife Crisis
Cynthia getting legal advice from midwife Jane Cunningham on the House floor. Cunningham is the spomsor of HB 255, which would make it a crime for the press to report on any pending ethics complaint against a legislator.
"Ok Jane, so the plan is I will simultaneously ask for mercy for myself and cut the elderly and disabled off of Medicaid? And you will amend HB 255 to retroactively apply to me."
Cynthia Davis Pleads Guilty; Begs for Mercy
Associated Press coverage of the Cynthia Davis "I used campaign funds to pay my taxes" scandal.
Here is the sweat soaked written statement she issued to the press: