Oh, please.
The Niki Tsongas truth squad is overreaching a bit with its attempt to take a bite of of prime primary rival Eileen Donoghue in the waning days of the campaign to see which Democrat makes the ballot in the final election to replace Marty Meehan in the Fifth Congressional District.
Donoghue reported to the Federal Election Commission this week that she had loaned her campaign another $125,000 of her own money for an ad blitz. See story here.
This, according to the Tsongas pit bulls, amounts to a horrific breach of faith with the voters.
“Having said two months ago that she would not put more personal money into her campaign, it looks like she’s now breaking that trust,”
Tsongas spokeswoman Katie Elbert told Eagle-Tribune Statehouse reporter Ed Mason.
Gee, can you hear the earth shifting under the Donoghue campaign? Have you see voters rise up in outrage over this scandal? Didn’t think so. This is inside baseball. Voters don’t really care what a candidate spends, except that they generally think all of them spend too much. They have indicated that they do care about things like national security, the war in Iraq, the economy, health care and all the other talking points in the Democratic playbook.
I’m not sure I, or the voters, should trust Donoghue, or Tsongas, on all of those substantive issues.
But I’ll give her a pass on how much of her own money she wants to spend to try to get elected.
