CA-04: McClintock Still Keeping 2010 Accounts Open

by: James L.

Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 11:16 PM EDT

This summer, GOP congressional candidate Tom McClintock's campaign said he was closing down an open account to run for statewide office in 2010 and donating the funds to charity.

But four weeks before the Nov. 4 election, McClintock's account remains open and active, as the Thousand Oaks lawmaker has doled out thousands of dollars to fellow Republicans in the last week.

McClintock made $3,600 donations, the maximum allowed under state law, to a trio of Republican candidates for the Legislature: Senate candidates Tony Strickland and Greg Aghazarian and Assembly hopeful Jack Sieglock.

And here's McClintock's lame-assed excuse:

Asked why the accounts remain open nearly three months later, McClintock spokesman Bill George said, "We are doing exactly what they said in that paper."

"It didn't say all of the money is going to charity," George said, "(Feliz) said he's shutting the accounts. There's no timeline here. We've given $51,000 to charity."

You got that? "There's no timeline here." For all we know, McClintock will shut these puppies down in 2011 after he makes yet another failed statewide bid.