On Sunday, the Billings Gazette ran a story about Max Baucus and his spending a cool $37,000 of his campaign money on food. Yes, food. Only about 10% of the money was spent in Montana. Ouch.

Besides spending over a thousand dollars at the normal restaurants near his real home in Washington, D.C., Baucus spent thousands of dollars on food at the Harvard Club in Boston and at the Hyatt Hotel in Chicago.

Additionally, Baucus spent, “…about $8,200 for hotels, including the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, the Hilton Hotel Dallas, the Westin Galleria Houston, the Westin Hotel in Chicago and the Pfister in Milwaukee.”

Of course, Baucus’ spokesman says that Baucus believes, “there’s too much money in politics…”

Then why doesn’t Baucus become a leader, instead of a follower? It appears he likes the lifestyle of dining with the rich and famous too much. One also has to wonder how he voted on some of the major issues that these big-time contributors were giving him money for.

It was already reported that 91% of the campaign donations came from out of state. With the spending Baucus is doing, he may run out of money before November. Naaah.

The latest article tells readers that most of the work for his campaign, like consulting, radio and TV advertisements, etc., is being done by out of state companies.

The majority of comments on the Gazette website show that Montanans were not too happy about Max jetting around the country, while many Montanans are struggling to make it paycheck to paycheck. When someone spends campaign money like this, it makes people understand why the USA is in such bad shape.

Will this information make the voters change their mind about Baucus? It should.