Poster anon brings our attention to this article in the News Journal about Christine O’Donnell. The article details O’Donnell’s various legal and money issues.
But while she was courting voters, she amassed thousands of dollars in campaign debt, was confronted by the IRS about unpaid income taxes and sold her Wilmington home to a campaign staffer to avoid a sheriff’s sale ordered to settle mortgage claims, a News Journal investigation shows.
I love this quote by O’Donnell:
“I think the fact that I have struggled financially is what makes me so sympathetic,” O’Donnell said.
Like most Republicans, nothing is ever her fault.
“This type of malicious behavior from supporters of a desperate career politician is to be expected because he cannot defend his big spending, liberal voting record,” O’Donnell said Friday when asked about past legal troubles. “Just because the lords of the backroom have an obnoxious sense of entitlement to promote one of their own, doesn’t mean their gutter politics are in the best interests of the voters.”
Her legal debt problems are detailed in the article, but here’s a summary.
– She has an almost $12,000 tax lien from the IRS from 2005
– She has a campaign debt of $24,000. She has raised $11,000 for this race so far.
– She has an upaid settlement to her alma mater of Fairleigh Dickinson which dates back to 1994. Fairleigh Dickinson is withholding her degree. Is she reporting herself as a college graduate in her resume?
– She lives in a house owned by a campaign staffer. At least half of her rent is paid by her campaign donations.
– She had a well-known dispute with a previous employer, ISI. She sued them for gender discrimination and they accused her of running a for-profit PR business on the company’s time. That suit has been dropped by O’Donnell.
– A house she bought in Hockessin went into foreclosure. She owed $90,000 on the house. The house was about to be sold by auction when she sold it to Brent Vasher, her boyfriend at the time for $135,000.
O’Donnell stands no chance of winning. I think Mike Castle will continue to ignore O’Donnell and focus his fire on Chris Coons.