The Washington Post is reporting that Ralph Nader has been using at least one of his non-profit organizations to help out his presidential campaign. Using non-profit organizations to support partisan political campaigns is illegal (not to mention unethical). Nader’s campaign has been using office space leased by Citizen Works, a non-profit group started by Nader.

Records show many links between Nader's campaign and the charity Citizen Works. For example, the charity's listed president, Theresa Amato, is also Nader's campaign manager. The campaign said in an e-mail to The Washington Post that Amato resigned from the charity in 2003. But in the charity's most recent corporate filing with the District, in January, Amato listed herself as the charity's president and registered agent.

The office suite housing the campaign, the charity and other sub-tenants had a common receptionist for greeting visitors.

Nader has made his reputation as a critic of the political system and those who corrupt it. He claims there is no difference between the corrupt republicans and the corrupt democrats. Now we know that the rules he asks others to live by don’t apply to him. That makes him just another corrupt politican with a sense of ego bigger than his sense of duty.