Sen. Salazar thinking snow?
Here at Party Time we’re curious about Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO). Now that President-elect Barack Obama has said Salazar is his pick for Interior Secretary, will Salazar still hold his planned Vail Winter fundraising retreat next month? And if he goes ahead and collects the “$5,000 suggested contribution” from donors what will he do with that cash and the rest of the $1.8 million cash on hand that he has in his campaign fund?
There are rules, of course, governing what members of Congress can do with their leftover campaign cash when they leave office. According to the Center for Responsive Politics:
The law stipulates that leftover campaign funds should be returned to donors, transferred to a political party or candidate, or donated to charity. Because of the logistics of returning partially spent donations of different sizes to an array of contributors, that option is not widely exercised.
Maybe it’s all a matter of how good the snow is in Vail. The resort is reporting three feet new of the white stuff over the past three days, and more than 4,000 acres open.
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