A report from the Daily Caller highlights another example of Senator Feingold’s campaign finance hypocrisy.
Teaching at Stanford wasn’t enough, Senator Feingold needs to party with the Hollywood stars…
"After spending years promising to raise most of his campaign funds from in-state donors, the former Wisconsin Democratic senator has done away with that old pledge and is now taking money from some big Hollywood liberals. According to campaign disclosures, Feingold has accepted contributions from director Steven Spielberg; Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg; director/producer JJ Abrams of “Lost” fame; Tim Disney, the great-nephew of Walt Disney; Bradley Whitford and Thomas Schlamme of “The West Wing”; actress Kate Capshaw from “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”; and Hollywood financial adviser Gerald Breslauer." (Daily Caller, 8/18/2015)
It’s only Wednesday but it has been a bad week for the former Senator.
On Monday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on how "Mr. Clean" took hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees post his 2010 defeat. In the Senate, Feingold "led the charge against" speaking fees.
Last Thursday, a report in National Journal revealed that Feingold has broken his number one garage door promise from his 1992 campaign – 57% of his campaign fundraising has come from donors outside the state of Wisconsin.
Since Senator Feingold loves California so much maybe he should just continue teaching at Stanford and hobnobbing with the Hollywood elite?