I guess if you flush a few hundred million down the drain, you have to recoup your costs where you can. But making a robust profit on overcharging the press corps on transportation and grub, that's a new one. As luck would have it, major newspapers are now telling the campaign that they're not in the business of covering campaign expenses:
News Outlets Send Letter To Romney Campaign Contesting Expenses
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In order to travel with the candidate, reporters were required to agree to costs in advance without knowing specifically what those costs would be. The trade-off in any such agreement is that the campaign will not exceed the normal bounds of propriety in charging news organizations. In this case, that is seriously in question.
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In hindsight, expecting anyone having to do with a GOP campaign to recognize, much less abide by, "normal bounds of propriety" is of course naive.
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