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Politics Chat: Chabot's Missing Campaign Money A Serious Matter

91.7 WVXU | By Howard Wilkinson
Published September 13, 2019 at 8:20 AM EDT
Chabot during a campaign event at Price Hill Chili, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018.
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Chabot during a campaign event at Price Hill Chili, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018.

The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) wants to know why an audit of U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot's campaign finance reports indicate that $123,000 has gone missing. Chabot, through a campaign lawyer, says he doesn't know and is very upset over the matter.

The focus of the investigation seems to center around Jamie Schwartz, Chabot's longtime campaign manager and adviser, who has shut the doors of his campaign consulting company and can't be reached for comment. WVXU's Senior Political Analyst Howard Wilkinson spoke with News Director Maryanne Zeleznik about how serious a problem this is for Chabot and whether or not it will impact his re-election campaign.

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Howard Wilkinson
Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU News Team after 30 years of covering local and state politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio governor’s race since 1974 as well as 12 presidential nominating conventions. His streak continued by covering both the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions for 91.7 WVXU. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots; the Lucasville Prison riot in 1993; the Air Canada plane crash at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983; and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. The Cincinnati Reds are his passion. "I've been listening to WVXU and public radio for many years, and I couldn't be more pleased at the opportunity to be part of it,” he says.
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