Republican Dan Coats, the ex-Senator turned Washington lobbyist, decided he wants to pass back through the revolving door and is running for Evan Bayh’s seat in Indiana.
But Coats is refusing to file his financial disclosure to the Senate Ethics Committee. After spending 12 years on K St. you can bet there are quite a few skeletons in his wallet.
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I don’t find myself quoting Red State very often, but this morning Erik Erickson got it exactly right:
Dan Coats is hiding some very key essential information from the voters. He does not want it out there until after the primary is over.
Why? What is he hiding?
Dan Coats is refusing to file his financial disclosure for the Senate. The deadline was weeks ago. At the time, Coats claimed he got bad advice (a pre-cursor of what is to come no doubt) and thought the deadline was different.
Still, weeks later and knowing the deadline was weeks ago, Dan Coats has failed to file his disclosure report.
I find it hard to believe that Coats can get away without disclosing this information before the primary. But so far, there hasn’t been a whole lot of pressure for him to do so.
Can he get away with breaking Senate ethics rules? Only time will tell...