The Clintons' midterm travel expenses topped $1.5 million
Bill and Hillary Clinton fly by private jet with a security detail and aides. And it gets expensive.
A Politico review of campaign filings found that campaigns and political committees spent more than $1.5 million to fly Bill and Hillary Clinton to various states via private jet to help stump for Democrats during the 2014 midterm season.
The tally includes $44,360 the final weekend of the campaign for a plane in Iowa. That was when Bill Clinton did a fly-around for failed Democratic Senate hopeful Bruce Braley. There was also a $21,801 charge that weekend to Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's unsuccessful reelection campaign, a POLITICO review found. [Politico]
While it would be illegal for the Clintons to pay for their own travel on behalf of another's campaign, Politico notes that more than 60 payments were made to a company called Executive Fliteways over the course of 2013 and 2014.
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The report also showed that "a number of other potential candidates for 2016 flew commercial in their travels for candidates in the midterms."
