Ohio Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign for governor has racked up more than half a million dollars in credit card bills without disclosing what it’s purchasing.
俄亥俄州共和党人维韦克·拉马斯瓦米（Vivek Ramaswamy）的州长竞选团队产生了超过50万美元的信用卡账单，但未披露具体购买内容。
The campaign’s credit card spending has jumped dramatically in recent months. Just since April, Ramasawamy’s campaign has put $280,892 on an American Express card.
该竞选团队近期的信用卡支出大幅飙升。仅自四月以来，拉马斯瓦米的竞选团队就在一张美国运通卡上消费了280,892美元。
Ohio campaign finance reports require campaigns to disclose each individual transaction — not just how much they spent but who they paid and what they purchased with the money. Ramaswamy’s campaign is only reporting its monthly credit card bill.
俄亥俄州的竞选财务规定要求竞选团队披露每笔单独的交易——不仅仅是花了多少钱，还包括支付给谁以及用这笔钱买了什么。拉马斯瓦米的竞选团队仅按月报告其信用卡账单。
State law requires verification like a receipt or cancelled check for any expenditure of $25 or more. Ohio’s campaign finance handbook directs treasurers to attach a credit card statement or some other documentation to verify an expense’s legitimacy. It’s not clear that Ramaswamy’s campaign has provided that documentation.
州法律规定，任何25美元及以上的支出都需要收据或注销支票等凭证进行核实。俄亥俄州竞选财务手册指导财务主管附上信用卡对账单或其他文件以证明支出合法性。目前尚不清楚拉马斯瓦米的竞选团队是否提供了这些文件。
To some observers, like the former leader of the Ohio Elections Commission Phil Richter, Ramaswamy’s reporting isn’t that big of a deal so long as the campaign eventually provides information to back up its spending.
对于一些观察者来说，比如前俄亥俄州选举委员会主席菲尔·里希特（Phil Richter），只要竞选团队最终能提供支撑其支出的信息，拉马斯瓦米的报告问题算不上什么大事。
“If it’s provided in a timely manner, there’s a little bit of a delay, but it’s not that out of the ordinary,” he said.
“如果及时提供，只是有点延迟，但这并不特别异常，”他说。
Others, though, see a troubling lack of transparency.
然而，其他人则认为这反映出令人不安的缺乏透明度。
“How you spent the campaign cash should not be an obstacle to reporting what you spent it on,” Catherine Turcer from Common Cause Ohio said.
俄亥俄州“共同事业”（Common Cause Ohio）的凯瑟琳·特瑟（Catherine Turcer）表示：“你如何花费竞选资金，不应成为报告资金用途的障碍。”
Brendan Glavin from OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan money in politics research group, warned that the campaign’s reporting could have negative ripple effects.
非党派政治资金研究组织“公开秘密”（OpenSecrets）的布伦丹·格拉文（Brendan Glavin）警告说，该竞选团队的报告可能会产生负面的连锁反应。
“Campaigns are their own economy with workers often supporting multiple candidates and specializing in specific parts of the process. So, this sort of thing, if people can do less and get away with it, then that’s going to get around very quickly,” he said.
“竞选团队就像一个小型经济体，工作人员往往同时支持多位候选人，并在流程的特定环节专业化。所以，如果人们可以少做点事却还能蒙混过关，这种行为很快就会蔓延开来，”他说。
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