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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley issued a statement Monday based on a recent Raw Story article, calling on former President Donald Trump to pay law enforcement who protect his presidential campaign events.

Haley cited Raw Story’s article “Siren: New Hampshire town eats Trump security bills while Haley pays local police,” where Raw Story obtained documents through an open records request showing that Trump’s June 27 visit to Concord, N.H., cost the local police and fire departments $3,778.85.

Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and a former U.N. ambassador under the Trump administration, said Trump should pay for costs incurred by law enforcement who will be staffing his visit Monday afternoon in Derry, N.H....

Members of Congress keep messing up — over and over and over again — in failing to abide by an 11-year-old financial disclosure and conflicts-of-interest law.

And the habitual lack of compliance with the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act — dozens of lawmakers have violated its disclosure provisions during the past three years, often offering tortured excuses — is eroding the public’s trust, one of the law’s original authors tells Raw Story.

“I mean, come on. ‘The dog ate my homework,’ aren’t we a little more grown up than that?” said former Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA). “If we're capable of voting on whether or not to raise or lower taxes or send people to war, I think we can report when we make an investment.”...