{"id":1618,"date":"2015-03-23T02:47:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T02:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/09\/12\/sen-mary-landrieu-blames-sloppy-book-keeping-for-taxpayer-funded-campaign-flights\/"},"modified":"2015-03-23T02:47:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T02:47:55","slug":"mary-landrieu-blames-sloppy-bookkeeping-for-taxpayer-funded-campaignflights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/1618","title":{"rendered":"Mary Landrieu blames sloppy bookkeeping for taxpayer-funded campaign flights"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Raffiwilliams\/status\/510531979813462017\n

The Times-Picayune is reporting<\/a> that Sen. Mary Landrieu on Friday issued the results of an internal investigation that uncovered $33,700 in campaign flights that were charged to her Senate account.<\/p>\n\n\n

Mary Landrieu internal investigation finds $33,700 in improperly charged flights http:\/\/t.co\/GQZoW4NU24<\/a><\/p>\n

— NOLA.com (@NOLAnews) September 12, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

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Landrieu blamed sloppy book keeping for the controversy:<\/p>\n

“The review I ordered last month found these mistakes stemming from sloppy book keeping. I take full responsibility. They should have never happened, and I apologize for this,” Landrieu said. <\/strong>“A new system has been established that has been successfully used by a number of senate offices to provide a safeguard from this happening in the future.”<\/p>\n\n\n

Landrieu blames sloppy bookkeeping: “I take full responsibility. This should have never happened & I apologize…” http:\/\/t.co\/reYbSCMbyx<\/a><\/p>\n

— James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) September 12, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

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The $33,727.02 Landrieu is paying back is only 11% percent of total charged to federal govt for chartered flights: http:\/\/t.co\/reYbSCMbyx<\/a>.<\/p>\n

— James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) September 12, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bill Cassidy demands Mary Landrieu release\/review all her flight records back to 1997 — not just 2002 — for possible reimbursement.<\/p>\n

— James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) September 12, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

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RNC communications director Sean Spicer was quick to jump on the news.<\/p>\n\n\n

43 = how many flights @MaryLandrieu<\/a> is reimbursing taxpayers 4 her campaign trips. Thats not a book keeping problem, thats incompetence.<\/p>\n

— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) September 12, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

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.@MaryLandrieu<\/a> repays almost $34K for flights via @Gannett<\/a> http:\/\/t.co\/jTXsPRz9cg<\/a><\/p>\n

— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) September 12, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

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Report: @MaryLandrieu<\/a> Billed Taxpayers for Campaign Trips Dating Back to 2000 @NRO<\/a> http:\/\/t.co\/EPuaDeDAWq<\/a><\/p>\n

— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) September 12, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

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RNC spokesman Michael Short told National Review Online<\/a> it was no mistake that Landrieu let her self-imposed deadline of Sept. 8 pass before releasing the report. “With at least 9 more potentially illegal taxpayer-funded charter flights in question, it’s clear why Senator Landrieu decided not to release her report on time,” he said. “These flights suggest a longstanding pattern of abuse of taxpayer dollars dating back to her first term in office – not a bookkeeping error – and a strong contempt for hardworking Louisiana taxpayers”<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Raffiwilliams\/status\/510531979813462017 The Times-Picayune is reporting that Sen. Mary Landrieu on Friday issued the results of an internal investigation that uncovered $33,700 in campaign flights that were charged to her Senate account. Mary Landrieu internal investigation finds $33,700 in improperly charged flights http:\/\/t.co\/GQZoW4NU24 — NOLA.com (@NOLAnews) September 12, 2014 Landrieu blamed sloppy book keeping for the controversy: “The review I … Continue reading Mary Landrieu blames sloppy bookkeeping for taxpayer-funded campaign flights<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[860,861,859,856,858,862,461,857,854,855],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","tag-bookkeeping","tag-campaign-trips","tag-chartered-flights","tag-internal-investigation","tag-james-hohmann","tag-landrieu","tag-mary-landrieu","tag-sean-spicer","tag-sen-mary-landrieu","tag-senator-landrieu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14269960871957-mary-landrieu-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}