Goode gives $1k to Doolittle.

Rep. Virgil Goode gave a $1,000 contribution to Rep. John Doolittle, CBS News reports. The man is free to give his personal money to anybody he wants, of course, but it’s an interesting juxtaposition. Doolittle is under investigation by the DOJ for his role in the massive Abramoff bribery case, and he also has extensive ties to indicted Duke Cunningham/Mitchell Wade buddy Brent Wilkes. These names just keep popping up in connection with Rep. Goode, and it’s more than a little uncanny. Thanks to David for the tip.

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6 replies on “Goode gives $1k to Doolittle.”

  1. Via opensecrets Goode gave to two other former members of the House Appropriations with troubles – Jerry Lewis and Tom Delay. Those two are the only contributions listed for Goode in the 2006 cycle.

  2. Waldo, the article says “Reps. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) and Virgil Goode (R-Va.) gave a combined $3,000.” So not all of the $3,000 came from Goode. Some was from Lewis (another scandal-plagued congressman). As an individual, Goode wouldn’t be able to give more than $2,300, would he?

  3. I’d noticed that curious language, too, KC, though I’d drawn the opposite conclusion: that they’d given $3k each, and CBS had simply phrased it poorly. After all, why choose to lump together two presumably unrelated contributions and report them as a single contribution? I checked OpenSecrets, but they didn’t have a record of the transaction, so I went with it. The FEC lists it at $1,000, though, so clearly you’re right — Lewis gave $2k and Goode gave $1k. I’ve corrected this blog entry accordingly.

    And, for the record, Goode could give up to $4,600, but Doolittle’s campaign would have been obliged to bank anything over $2,300 until after the primary.

  4. Yes, lumping them together is weird. Though it’s looking increasing like Doolittle, Lewis, and Goode all deserve to be lumped together, perhaps even in a cell.

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