for example, fec records from the federal elections commission showed that congressman bobby rush, aocrat of illinois paid his wife $103,000 over the last two-year cycle and jesse jackson jar of illinois paid his wife's consulting firm $101,000 over the past two years. now, a spokeswoman for jackson said jackson's wife is a highly regarded political consultant and former dnc employee and she was paid a fair market rate for her work on fund-raising and strategy. now, on the republican side, congressman dana rohrabacher of california paid his wife $73,000 over the past two years. his chief of staff told us she was his campaign manager since before they got married an she is not going to stop now and joe barton, republican from texas, paid his daughter $72,000 over the past two years. a spokesman for barton told us the congressman's daughter was a key campaign staffer whoer is afd critical function. now, we have to point out, all of these expenditures are no secret and no allegation of wrongdoing. this is legal. and of course, who would be more committed to working their heart out for y