Another minor reform the Elections Board should work on

Speaking of former State Senator Bob Welch's old campaign finance reports...

Welch also used to pay his wife to do the books for his campaign. Every six months or so he used to cut his wife a check for over $1000 for doing the books. I don't think candidates should ever be allowed to cut their spouses a check from their campaign account for work. Reimburse them for things they purchased for the campaign to use, yes, but not paying them to do things for the campaign. It's too much like putting campaign money directly into the pocket of the candidate and candidates could pay their spouse for work they never did just to get extra cash.

I'm sure she did do work for Welch's campaign but really, shouldn't spouses be willing to volunteer?

Welch didn't pay her an outrageous amount of money, but every year it was a couple extra thousand dollars into the family income. That's enough to take a nice vacation every year courtesy of your campaign contributors.