How Do Candidates Spend Their Money? It's A Guessing Game, Tulsa World Reports

The Tulsa World is out with an informative piece today, one that makes a point we've often cited here on The McCarville Report Online: Reading the expenditure side of candidate finance reports tells you very little about how they spend money.

Candidates for state office spent more than $30 million on their 2006 political campaigns, paying for everything from turtle races to fly swatters, with most of the money going to advertising, a Tulsa World review has found.

While most candidates provided some detail on how they spent their supporters' contributions, thousands of dollars disappeared into an accounting vacuum. Read more.

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