CT-Sen: FEC RAW!

WHATCHA GONNA DO, LINDA MCMAHON, WHEN THE FEC WRAPS ITS 24-INCH ENFORCEMENT PYTHONS AROUND YOUR SKETCHY CAMPAIGN FINANCE FILINGS?!?

According to campaign finance reports, Linda McMahon spent more than $2 million in the first three months of her bid for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.

But what those filings don't always show is who the campaign actually paid.

In the quarterly summary the McMahon campaign filed with the Federal Election Commission in October, some major campaign vendors are identified, including the direct-mail contractor Majority Strategies and the communications consultants DLA LLC.

But hundreds of thousands of dollars in other campaign expenditures, for services ranging from legal advice to computer assistance, are listed as in-kind contributions from Linda McMahon herself, with no information to show what companies or individuals volunteered or were paid for that work ...

FEC regulations permit in-kind contributions from a candidate to his or her campaign, and not all expenditures must be itemized to the same degree, said Christian Hilland, a spokesman for the commission.

But in the case of payments like the $38,000 McMahon paid for unspecified "media consulting" this fall, campaigns are expected to identify the recipients of their payments, he said.

"Yes, that would be an amount that would require disclosure," Hilland said.

Will the FEC follow the example of HHH and Stephanie McMahon and lay the smackdown on Linda? Find out on the next episode of FEC RAW!