It appears that David from C Street may have gotten a little financial assistance from Chip from C Street.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s political action committee reported giving $5,000 to Sen. David Vitter, R-La., the same week it accepted an identical amount from former Rep. Chip Pickering of Mississippi.
Pickering, like Vitter, is a conservative Christian Republican accused of having an extramarital affair linked to the “C Street” townhouse in Southeast Washington that is at the center of a spate of GOP sex scandals.
Hold on. These PAC’s must have money coming and going all the time. How can we be sure that the $5,000 from Chip Pickering was the same $5,000 that went to Vitter?
Pickering’s otherwise dormant CHIP PAC made its first donation of the year to Haley’s PAC on Aug. 15 — four days after the governor gave to Vitter’s 2010 re-election campaign — according to a Sept. 20 filing with the Federal Election Commission. The two checks comprise all of the month’s activities for Haley’s PAC, which has just $13,281.37 in the bank and has made only one other contribution this year.
Oh.
Still, this could all just be a coincidence. Surely a spokesman for Haley Barbour can clear all this up.
“No comment,” said Austin Barbour, who is treasurer of his uncle Haley’s PAC and works at Capitol Resources with Pickering.
Well, that didn’t help. Maybe Pickering can tell us that this is all just a big misunderstanding.
Pickering was not at his office when a reporter called on Monday and did not immediately return a message left on Tuesday morning.
Tags: C Street, Chip Pickering, David Vitter, Haley Barbour
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