Keeping campaign funds (almost) all in the family

Who better to hire for campaign work than spouses and children? It might be controversial, but it's not unusual.

13 May 2009 // WASHINGTON - New evidence that politics is often a family affair:

It turns out that freshman Rep. Erik Paulsen, R-Minn., used campaign funds to pay his wife nearly $10,000 to work on his 2008 congressional race. That's according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings analyzed by a Democratic-leaning website.