Democrat, Who Handled Campaign Funds, Caught Stealing from the Thieves
by Jeff Davis
Democrats seem to get caught up in financial scandals again and again. In this latest story, many big-name California Democrats trusted their finances to a crook. Can you say “horribly bad liberal judgment”? Sure you can!
The police have arrested a prominent Democrat fundraiser, Kinde Durkee, who bears a strong resemblance to a hippopotamus, for embezzling campaign funds from half the prominent liberals in California.
The Orange County Register reports: “A prominent Democratic campaign treasurer who works for federal, state and O.C. lawmakers including U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Loretta Sanchez and state legislators Lou Correa and Jose Solorio has been arrested by the FBI on suspicion of mail fraud, The Orange County Register has learned. U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Thom Mrozek confirmed Saturday afternoon that Kinde Durkee of Burbank-based Durkee and Associates, was arrested by the FBI on a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento. Special Agent Steve Dupre of the bureau’s Sacramento office said she was arrested in connection with her position as a campaign treasurer.
“State Sen. Lou Correa told the Register on Saturday afternoon that he was called by the FBI late Friday night and told that Durkee had been arrested and that he is a likely victim along with ‘many, many other victims.’ The Santa Ana Democrat said he believes he has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds. ‘This is clearly a sense of betrayal of someone I have trusted for a number of years,’ said Correa, who has used Durkee as his campaign treasurer since 1995. ‘This is a punch straight to the gut.’ ”
“Federal Election Commission records show that Durkee is the treasurer for Feinstein and Sanchez, who could not be reached Saturday. California Secretary of State records show she currently serves as the treasurer for at least 113 state-level committees….”
Not only did these major Democrats trust this crook, most of them allowed her to handle their campaign finances!! Shouldn’t these Democrat politicians, greedy and money-grubbing SOBs that they are, keep better tabs on their money? These Dems are endlessly trying to steal just a little bit more from us taxpayers so they can throw that money away on educating illegal alien children or Section 8 housing or a hundred other hand out programs. I’m stunned that they don’t go over their campaign finance books with a magnifying glass every evening until they know where every penny comes from and where every penny goes.
Thearticle continues “Those committees (Durkee worked on) include campaign accounts for Solorio, D-Santa Ana; Assemblymen Gilbert Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, and Roger Hernandez, D-Baldwin Park; State Sens. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance and Curren Price, D-Los Angeles; Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian; and former Orange County lawmaker Tom Umberg. Durkee also oversaw the political-action committees of the Democratic Party of Orange County and the Democratic Foundation of Orange County, among others.”
Perhaps this woman thought that since the Dems were stealing money from White taxpayers for illegal aliens and black welfare mammies, that she could steal a little from the thieves for herself.
OC Register: “Durkee has had enforcement actions taken against her four times by the state Fair Political Practices Commission, primarily for failing to report transactions or information. She has also received at least a half a dozen enforcement warning letters from the commission and stipulated to a violation before the City of San Diego Ethics Commission.”
In other words the Democrat machine in California should have known something was wrong with her. They kept warning her and warning her. They did everything they could except put up a neon sign saying “Hey, dummy! Quit stealing!” But she just wouldn’t get the message. So finally they had to rap her on the knuckles. After all, that was liberal Democrats’ money she was stealing!!
You probably have to be a crook in the first place to handle campaign finances for the Democrats. Who knows how much money comes from Mexican drug lords or the Communist Chinese? Still, there’s a limit to how much you can skim off for yourself. Durkee apparently stole too much, but her many years of elbow-rubbing with top Democrats and the fact that she probably knows a lot of dirty secrets about campaign financing will likely mean that she’ll get a remarkably light sentence if she even spends one single day in jail.
