Tuesdays with Dawnna
 Dukes in 2005 (AP/Harry Cabluck) |
Late posting this Tuesday because we've been busy taking some of the questions about Austin State Rep. Dawnna Dukes's improper campaign finance reporting directly to Dukes, who was kind enough to stop by KVUE's capitol office to talk to us.
Recent reports by Texas Weekly and others have pointed out Dukes spent more than $89,000 on 19 different credit cards without attributing the vendors. (The ethics commission requires filers to itemize the purchases on their campaign credit cards.)
Dukes says she, like many other lawmakers, didn't know that the credit card spending needed to be itemized until a clarification letter was sent by the ethics commission last year. She's filling an amended report.
See Dukes on the air tonight at six. Meanwhile, here is the excel spreadsheet of Dukes expenditures since 2000. I've included here two other sheets (use the tabs at the bottom of the screen to jump sheet to sheet), where the expenditures are organized by description and payee.
