Farmingville, NY -- Full-time Congressional candidate Chris Cox ignored several published news reports and election filings when he falsely accused Congressman Tim Bishop of pocketing campaign contributions from Congressman Charles Rangel.

Yesterday, Chris Cox put out a press release "calling" on Congressman Bishop to return campaign contributions made by Congressman Rangel between 2002 and 2004.  There's just one problem with this request: Congressman Bishop has already returned the money.

"Either Chris Cox was too lazy to fact check the accusation he made against Congressman Bishop, or he simply doesn't care about lying to the voters he wants to represent," said Audrey Kubetin, spokeswoman for Congressman Bishop.  "Suffolk County deserves better than this type of sloppy behavior from a wannabe politician who only moved here in January.  If Mr. Cox can free himself from playing croquet at his family's Hamptons estate, he should do the honorable thing and apologize to Congressman Bishop."

In March, Congressman Bishop announced to several news outlets, including Newsday and the New York Post, that he would return contributions from Congressman Rangel, despite the fact that he hasn't received any since 2004, when there were no ethical questions surrounding Congressman Rangel.  Congressman Bishop has donated the funds to help honor Suffolk County's veterans.  A glance at the Congressman's FEC report, which is available to everyone online, will reveal that he made $10,000 in contributions to local veterans groups last quarter to help build memorials.  He is in talks with other veterans organizations to disburse any remaining funds.

Expenditures on Congressman Tim Bishop's FEC report, publicly available as of July 15:


To download a PDF of Congressman Bishop's most recent quarterly FEC filing, click here.  No viruses, I promise.

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