Frank Guinta Has a Passion for Using Excess Money

by: Dean Barker

Tue Oct 19, 2010 at 06:11:17 AM EDT

Guinta said his focus would be to first pass a budget that is balanced and use any possible excess money created through spending cuts to pay off the state's debt, while at the same time working to ensure "each and every (elected official) is held accountable."

The man who injected $355,000 of excess money into his own campaign, but who refuses to hold himself accountable by showing a simple bank statement proving that the money is his and therefore legal, wants us to trust him with the balancing the federal budget. OK!

Take it away, former chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party:

Guinta says he simply forgot about the account. Would you forget about a bank account containing between $250,000 and $500,000?

Discussion of this account is relevant because members of Congress deal with sums of public money worth many, many times that. If Guinta can't keep track of his own money, how can he keep track of the federal budget?