After it was revealed last week that Senator Ron Johnson had used tens of thousands of taxpayers’ dollars to fly between Washington, D.C. and his $1.6 million Florida vacation home, he was hit yesterday with an official complaint to the Senate Ethics Committee.
This type of self-serving corruption is the epitome of what Wisconsinites hate about the wealthy and powerful elites in Washington like Senator Johnson. Johnson is so out-of-touch that he saw nothing wrong with the fact that he was using taxpayer money to vacation.
Now, the Senate Ethics Committee will determine if Johnson broke Senate rules by funding his Florida vacation travel with the taxes hard-working Wisconsin families were forced to pay to the government.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Complaint filed against Ron Johnson over flights from Florida
Daniel Bice
06/01/22
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A Madison-based Democratic activist has filed a complaint over Republican Sen. Ron Johnson’s use of taxpayer dollars to cover the cost of flights between a Florida family vacation home and Washington, D.C., including nine flights last year.
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Claudia Pogreba, working with the state Democratic Party, filed a three-page complaint with Senate Ethics Committee Chairman Chris Coons (D-Delaware), and Vice-Chairman James Lankford (R-Oklahoma).
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“Senators may only use government funds to pay for travel that has an official business component,” wrote Pogreba… “Yet Sen. Johnson has flouted this rule by repeatedly using official funds to subsidize personal travel.”
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Overall, federal records show, the multimillionaire Wisconsin senator has been reimbursed for 19 flights from Fort Myers, Florida, to Washington between 2013 and May 2021. The trips cost taxpayers somewhere between $5,418 and $18,781.
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Johnson’s family bought a 3,400-square-foot waterfront house in Fort Myers, near Sanibel Island, for $1.6 million in October 2013.
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