White collar crime is tough isn't it? That's what the GOP's Congressional campaign arm is learning, anyway.
Christopher Ward their former treasurer, it's now being reported, transfered $1 million in campaign contributions into his own accounts over a period of a few years.
It took a while for the crime to get noticed - the GOP isn't that good with money, remember - but now that the fraud has been identified, it has left party officials feeling "deceived and betrayed."
It wouldn't make any sense to blame a whole party for the crime committed against it by a single individual. But it does seem that committing such a crime would be far easier in an organization so tolerant of greed. Greed is a virtue that is essentially encouraged by much conservative rhetoric and it's easy to see how the Republican
campaign organization could then fall victim to it itself.
