Vince's post simply poses the question, "Is Dawnna Dukes Paying Personal Debt Off With Campaign Funds?"
Analyzing Dukes' reported expenses, she has a series of expenses that are basically the same amount over and over although the purpose of the expense differs.
For example, on ten separate occasions, Dukes lists a Bank of America expense for exactly $100, although the reported purpose of the expense varies wildly. How can it be a mere coincidence that a lot of "staff meals" cost exactly $100?
And, on 17 different occasions, Dukes' reports show a Bank of America expense for exactly $200. Again, the reported purpose of the expenses varies wildly.
If a bunch of different expenditures from "meals" to "flowers" costing exactly $100 and $200 isn't strange enough, Dukes' "staff holiday party" evidently cost her campaign exactly $1,000, if you believe her ethics reports.
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To say the least, it stretches credibility (to go farther, it's just unbelievable) that everything from "meals" to "flowers" to "stage rental" to "gas" and a "Thanksgiving Reception" all cost the exact same dollar amount.
Although Dukes' campaign reports more than $89,000 spent on 19 different credit cards (seriously, who has 19 credit cards?), more than $10,700 of that has gone to her Bank of America card.
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So, to recap: we have a series of payments in the exact, round amounts of $100 and $200 for very different items are going to the same entity. Dukes happens to have a $25,000 or more personal liability with that same entity.
Perhaps her money problems is why she had only $5,000 cash on hand during the last reporting period. Maybe her inability to balance her own check book and pay off her own debt with her own money is why she went to Paris during the biggest tax vote in modern Texas history.
