Backstory: the "endlessly hypocritical" Joe Lieberman reported $387K in undifferentiated "petty cash" expenditures in his September campaign expense disclosure. Petty cash is by FEC ruling limited to 100 bucks or under. What a huge lot of burgers and gas fillups that is! By comparison Ned spent under $500 in the same period (no cite, I don't recall where exactly I saw that latter figure). Also such disbursements are to be carefully itemized. So Joe's breaking the law. For a while, the story languished in the press.
Now apparently the CT press is getting on the stick. That's great. The most reasonable suspicion is that the missing $387K has gone for machine-politics style "street money". As the just cited blogger puts it, "street money is wrong. The public knows that instinctively"; so that if word gets out to the general public, "it would tank his campaign".
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