A Social Disease

Legislative candidates who use state funds to campaign must be punished. Sharp monitoring by independent watchdogs is needed.

January 28, 2014

Incumbent legislators who misuse state funds for political campaigning are clearly guilty of dishonesty. It is not only a violation of ethics: the use of State Budget or Regional Budget funds by people running in the 2014 elections is against the law. These state funds are allocated for government programs, not for personal or party political programs.

If these abuses are being carried out from the time budgets are planned at the House of Repres

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