So now at least in South Carolina you can smell them before they show up.
Politicians can no longer use campaign funds to pay for dry cleaning, according to 26 new rules passed Friday by the South Carolina House Ethics Committee stipulates.
“We’re all trying to tighten up and be as specific as we can,” Republican Chairman of the Ethics Committee Kenny Bingham told The Courier. “The laundry list opinion is done to try to give some people some guidance because people are petrified of making a mistake and getting a negative newspaper article.”
The unusual dry cleaning rule was one of 26. The 26 specific scenarios came from lawmakers who requested clarity on a number of key issues after officials assigned Special Investigator David Pascoe to look into South Carolina Statehouse corruption.
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