Former Republican Presidential Candidates Crap on Small Business Owners
July 29, 2012 at 12:55 PM Leave a comment
This is disgusting given the Republican’s rhetoric about having soooooo muuuuucch love and concern for small business owners:
(AP Photo / Charlie Neibergall)
Michele Bachmann used a fleet of golf carts to transport supporters around the grounds of Iowa State University en route to winning the Ames straw poll last August, in what proved to be the high point of her campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
The guy who owns those golf carts is still waiting for his check.
He’s not alone; Bachmann’s camp owes $935,000 to vendors across the country.
Other Republican contenders such as Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum owe even more; their campaigns are $4.85 million and $1.69 million in the hole, respectively, according to their most recent federal campaign reports.
Unpaid Jon Huntsman vendors lawyered up earlier this year, and the former Utah governor responded by personally loaning money his campaign $1.54 million since March to clear most, but not all debts.
While it’s common for presidential campaigns to take their time closing up shop, the small businesses left holding the bag are asking: Whatever happened to fiscal responsibility?
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