Running as outsider, Budd campaign now dines mostly in “the swamp”
Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) ran his first campaign in 2016 on being a Washington outsider. But in the first 18 months since his election, Budd’s campaign finance reports show that he spent more than 20 times as much money on D.C. dining than he did on food and drink back in his home state.