Wouldn’t it be nice if people could just not be awful. I feel like that’s a really low bar, but we’re never going to get there.
The R next to a politician’s name means (Review Needed)
However, his last year has been dogged by scrutiny over a $320,000 personal loan he reported on disclosures to the Federal Election Commission.
Catch up quick: Ogles later amended disclosures to reduce the reported personal loan amount to $20,000.
Ogles said last year he is “confident that any reporting problem was at worst an honest mistake.”
Sure, I’ve honestly mistakenly added $300,000 to a loan disclosure on an FEC form myself. It’s not like you check those things over for mistakes.
(Also, I really fucking hate Axios’ format.)
But it’s such a simple typo, surely it’s just…
The report also found there is “substantial reason to believe that Rep. Ogles’s campaign committee may have accepted excessive contributions that were reported as personal loans and contributions from the candidate.”
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