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Mississippi politicians continue to enrich themselves with campaign funds, documents show


JACKSON • Mississippi politicians continue to personally profit from their campaign funds, new state filings show, a practice that’s illegal in many other states and at the federal level.
In November, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney paid himself $30,000 from his campaign account. “Personal,” Chaney wrote as the purpose of the expenditure, according to his finance report filed last week.
Before he wrapped up a 16-year career in the state Senate last year, J.P. Wilemon, a Democrat from Belmont, pocketed $12,016 that was leftover in his campaign account, a filing shows.
Lawmakers passed campaign finance reforms in 2017 following embarrassing reports by the Clarion Ledger that showed how officials had spent donations on everything from children’s parties, to cars, to an $800 pair of cowboy boots. Yet a grandfather clause inserted into the legislation essentially let the unregulated spending continue – as long as politicians used ....

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Who's getting rich off child support? (Hint: It's not the moms)


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Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves leaves the Capital Club at Capital Towers in Jackson after the Stennis Capitol Press Forum Jackson Monday, January 14, 2019. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For America
Who’s getting rich off child support?
(Hint: It’s not the moms)
Editor’s note: This story is part two in a series examining Mississippi’s child support enforcement program. Read the other stories here.
In 2019, kids in Mississippi’s child support program got an average of about $900.
The same year, Gov. Tate Reeves’ campaign received $25,000 from the wealthy private government contractor who runs the public service. ....

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