Never Enough: Bob Duff, Taxpayer Financing and a Tenant Who Runs His Campaign.

NancyonNorwalk.com is a jewel among local news sites. Nancy Chapman is tireless in reporting news in Norwalk. Because the Senate Majority Leader, Bob Duff, is a Norwalk Democrat, news from those precincts can be of interest to a wide audience.

Take NancyonNorwalk’s October 11th post on Duff’s eyebrow-raising campaign spending. His re-election campaign paid SoNo Group to manage his campaign. SoNo Group is run by Nancy Pugh. She lives at Duff’s home and appears to be his tenant. It is the sort of arrangement that makes people skeptical about the motives of our political leaders. It’s not as direct as using a political committee to pay rent to yourself, as state Representative Minnie Gonzalez used to do, but it does prompt concerns of manipulating Connecticut’s generous public campaign financing system to reap a personal benefit beyond having the taxpayers bear the burden of a political campaign.