Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district. And then, scandal. Campaign finance records from the 1990 effort showed that Pence, then 31, had been using political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife.
RT @washingtonpost: Mike Pence used campaign funds to pay his mortgage — and it cost him an election wapo.st/29JpHjh
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Debra Messing (@DebraMessing) July 16, 2016