A federal PAC in Minnesota has carried a $56,025.62 debt to a company that no longer exists because the owner died, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
Said PAC treasurer Steve Simon: “The company is no more. The owner is no more. Yet the FEC won’t let us take it off the books.”
“The solution, derived from legal advice and the FEC? The DFL just has to report the debt cycle after cycle forever and ever.”
“To punctuate an impassioned pitch for his signature plan to raise taxes on the wealthy, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio went out of his way during a speech to praise a cherished political mentor and former boss watching from the audience,” the New York Times reports.
“The recipient of his warm words, former Mayor David Dinkins, did not exactly return the favor.”
“In an unscripted and cringe-inducing moment of political candor, Mr. Dinkins opined before a crowd of journalists and academics at Columbia University that Mr. de Blasio should consider a different approach to funding an expansion of prekindergarten programs, throwing a wrench into what was meant to be a carefully choreographed day of municipal theater.”
Administration officials said that “some visitors to Obamacare’s federal enrollment site would experience outages, slow response times or messages to try again later during the month of December,” The Hill reports.
“The administration has staked its healthcare rollout on expanding the system’s user capacity and addressing site errors by the end of the month. Both supporters and opponents of the Affordable Care Act are closely watching the deadline… Both groups know that if the site cannot recover by next month, its dysfunction will plunge the administration into another political crisis.”