Bishop campaign should keep hands off our taxpayer money

Opinion

July 24, 2010

Carly Sharec The Times Enterprise Sat Jul 24, 2010, 03:54 PM EDT

— Sanford Bishop should use his own money, not our tax money, for his campaign. He used your tax dollars and government staff to campaign on his congressional Web site.

The recent article entitled, “Keown Has Bitten Off More Than He Can Chew” is nothing more than a campaign piece attacking Mike Keown.

Sanford Bishop is a lawyer. He can probably give a lawyerly response to explain why he chose to use government staff and government resources to develop, publish and distribute this article with tax money. But the title alone says that this is about the campaign, not about doing the people’s business. It doesn’t take a Washington lawyer to understand that.

There is an explanation. Mike Keown raised more money than Sanford Bishop did last quarter. Farmers, small business owners and people from all walks of life are donating to Mike Keown to be their next congressman.

Sanford Bishop is having a hard time getting people down here to donate to him, so he just decided to campaign with your tax money. It is his version of the incumbent protection stimulus plan.

With all due respect, Congressman Bishop, use your own money to campaign, not our grandchildren’s.

Donald E. Cole

Cordele

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