Young’s Defense Fund Nets $0When you’ve got lawyers gobbling up $1 million plus in fees, you need all the help you can get. And in January, Rep. Don Young (R-AK) opened up a legal defense fund to help stop the bleeding. He was forced to pay out more in legal fees from his campaign account than he was able to raise in the first quarter of this year.
But through March of this year, a disclosure report for the fund shows, no one had contributed to the fund.
It’s been a pretty dismal year for Young so far — what with drawing a surprise primary challenge from the lieutenant governor and the drumbeat of bad press. The only bright spot has been Democrat Jake Metcalfe’s (“Jake the Snake,” Young calls him) departure from the race due to his aide’s alleged role in rigging up fake websites to ridicule fellow Dem candidate Ethan Berkowitz.