Digby: JoeNixon

The NY Times blog "The Empire Zone" doesn't seem to think it's even possible that Joe Lieberman could have done anything unethical with his 387,000 slush fund. They have relegated the story to its blog that nobody reads.

The truth is that $387,000 in petty cash expenses in a primary race is an enormous sum and it should set off all kinds of bells in the minds of journalists and, as Matt Stoller discusses here, the good government campaign finance groups:

If a Senator put $387,000 in cash out on the streets in the final two weeks before the election - we're talking cash here - and then failed to disclose where it went to reporters or anyone else by using the petty cash account, wouldn't you think that good government groups who care about campaign finance laws and disclosure would be slightly interested? I would. Yet since Lieberman revealed this on his FEC forms late last week, only the Lamont campaign has been willing to file an FEC complaint.