{"id":1673225,"date":"2022-10-05T05:20:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T09:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1673225"},"modified":"2022-10-05T05:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T09:20:33","slug":"dan-kildee-pays-wealthy-donor-nearly-200k-in-taxpayer-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dan-kildee-pays-wealthy-donor-nearly-200k-in-taxpayer-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Kildee Pays Wealthy Donor Nearly $200K in Taxpayer Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdan-kildee-pays-wealthy-donor-nearly-200k-in-taxpayer-funds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1673225&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Michigan Dem scores deal to rent luxury office space from campaign donor<\/p>\n<p>   Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/joseph-simonson\/\" title=\"Posts by Joseph Simonson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Joseph Simonson<\/a> \u2022 October 5, 2022 5:00 am  <\/p>\n<p>A Michigan Democrat has paid nearly $200,000 in taxpayer funds to a campaign donor for luxury office space, a relationship that ethics experts say raises uncomfortable questions.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Dan Kildee, who represents Michigan&#8217;s fifth district, was first elected in 2012. Since 2019, he has rented office space in the Dryden Building, a luxury property in Flint, Mich., owned by Phil and Jocelyn Hagemen. House records show Kildee spending roughly $12,000 to nearly $15,000 a quarter on the office space, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/flint\/2015\/08\/a_first_look_at_the_renovation.html\">which boasts<\/a> exposed brick and marble window sills.<\/p>\n<p>The Hagemens have donated nearly $7,000 to Kildee&#8217;s House campaigns since 2012, public campaign finance documents show.<\/p>\n<p>The arrangement appears to violate House rules, which indicate that House members must not enter into a leasing agreement with anyone with whom they &#8220;have had, or continue to have, a professional or legal relationship.&#8221; At the very least, government corruption watchdog and executive director for the Foundation for Accountability and Civil Trust Kendra Arnold told the\u00a0<em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, voters in Kildee&#8217;s district ought to know how he&#8217;s spending their money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It may fall into the category of where it is not a wise thing to do, or something that constituents may not approve of because of the relationship,&#8221; Foundation for Accountability and Civil Trust executive director Kendra Arnold told the Washington Free Beacon. &#8220;The Federal Elections Commission is not looking at these disclosures closely, they&#8217;re just looking to see if there are any major red flags, like if numbers don&#8217;t add up. They do not examine each individual expenditure. The real oversight comes from the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kildee has avoided scrutiny over his personal dealings over the years due to his district voting overwhelmingly Democrat in previous election cycles. Redistricting, however, has forced him into a tight race against Republican and former Trump administration official Paul Junge.<\/p>\n<p>Kildee, who did not respond to a request for comment, also seemed to receive a sweetheart deal for his office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Michigan Democrat has paid nearly $200,000 in taxpayer funds to a campaign donor for luxury office space, a relationship that ethics experts say raises uncomfortable questions.<br \/>\nThe post Dan Kildee Pays Wealthy Donor Nearly $200K in Taxpayer Funds appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}