Small Payment Could Be Big Problem For Babeu And His Immigrant Ex-Boyfriend

The entry appears on Babeu’s June 30, 2010 campaign finance report with the Pinal County Elections Department in Arizona.

It says that on April 8, 2010, the sheriff paid himself $95.81 out of his own campaign fund. The reason for the transaction, according to the filing, was “refund for website maint payment.”

The language would suggest Babeu paid someone out of his own pocket for maintenance of his website and then got the campaign to reimburse him for it.

The filing doesn’t say who Babeu paid for the service or why it initially came out of his own pocket. However, it’s typical for candidates to sometimes purchase campaign items on their own and then receive a reimbursement. Babeu even lists two other “refunds” that appear to be reimbursements in the filing, one for for $500 for “MFBQ autodialer” and the other for $270 for “campaign promotional ‘hats.’

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