Sen. Dick Durbin seems to have a problem with using government resources for campaign purposes.
Just when you thought U.S. Senator Dick Durbin had dispensed with the tempest about using his Senate logo for a campaign video, his staff dug an even deeper hole.
On the New York Times blog Caucus, Durbin spokesman Mike Daly admitted that a 5-minute welcome video to liberal bloggers at the YearlyKos convention last weekend in Chicago should not have had the Senate logo, because, by inference, it was campaign related. However, in the same NY Times blog post, it says that Durbin’s people concede the video was made in the Senate studios.
To be honest, most complaints of this type seem like simple oversights, rather than a coordinated effort to use government resources for political purposes. But I will not the silence of some of our local progressive activists, who will love to trumpet such complaints against their political opponents - both Democrat and Republican - but are unaffected by a misstep by Sen. Barack Obama's campaign and this much more expensive and serious misuse by Durbin's office.
Again - these things are almost always a tempest in a teapot, but the self-righteous hypocrisy makes it worth noting.
