GOP lawmaker refuses to pay off campaign bills after running as a fiscal conservative

Systemic Error Podcast · Jul 5, 2026 · 3m

Fiscal Discipline for You, Insolvency for ThemThe Power Was Always HisRobert Pittenger did not lose power when he lost his House seat. He kept the thing that mattered: the ability to decide who gets paid and who gets stiffed. His campaign committee now tells the Federal Election Commission it will pay nothing on roughly $726,000 in debt, with every proposed creditor payment blank or set to zero.That is not confusion. It is a decision. The former congressman who once sold himself as a deficit hawk is now using the same political machinery he lectured others about to leave vendors, service…