BOSTON – State Sen. Brian Joyce of Milton has made a $3,367 personal donation to charity to resolve the use of campaign funds to help cover the $5,200 cost of his son's graduation party at the senator's home, as well as a $1,250 donation to resolve other issues, including unreported spending and accounting errors.
The state Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) announced the resolution on Wednesday, saying Joyce, a Democrat, had initially covered about $1,800 of the party's total cost. Use of campaign funds to pay party costs "could constitute personal use within the meaning" of campaign finance laws, the agency wrote in a disposition agreement signed by the senator and OCPF officials and released on Wednesday.
(CNSNews.com) – Talk show host and author Tavis Smiley told C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" on Friday that blacks have lost ground in every leading economic category in the last 10 years.
"It's depressing. You have to go where the data takes you … and what the data tell us is … that black folk have fallen behind in every major economic category," said Smiley, who talked about his book, "The Covenant with Black America: Ten Years Later."
