Put it on plastic: How California lawmakers spent more than $4 million on campaign credit cards

Lawmakers in California used credit cards to make more than $4 million in purchases in the first 18 months of the election period, according to an investigation by the Sacramento Bee.

Cross-country travel, fundraising dinners, late night meetings at an LA nightclub?

If you're running for office in California, you may have an option for how to pay for these campaign-related expenses: just put it on plastic.

Apparently, that's what many state lawmakers did in the run up to Tuesday's election.

Lawmakers in California used credit cards to make more than $4 million in purchases in the first 18 months of the election period, according to an investigation by the Sacramento Bee that looked at lawmakers' credit cards and how much they did – and did not – disclose.

For more, Take Two is joined by Jim Miller, who reports for the Sacramento Bee and the Capitol Hill Alert blog. Read his report, "California lawmakers’ campaign credit-card spending often lacks disclosure."