Congressional GOP candidate says his party cheats

I would think he would know:

A little-known congressional candidate filed a complaint against his own party with the Federal Election Committee yesterday, contending that the Massachusetts Republican Party has directed money from its federal campaign account to fund candidates for the state Legislature and ignored the congressional field.

Thomas P. Tierney, who is looking to unseat US Representative Martin T. Meehan, Democrat of Lowell, next week, said the state GOP has given congressional campaigns only $590 of the $3.6 million raised for the Massachusetts Republican State Congressional Committee, the party's federal account.

"It's a giant scam," the Framingham Republican said. "The state committee is gathering all this money from wealthy contributors limited by the state campaign limitations . . . and they just take the money and put it into the federal committee and they back-channel it into the state committee."

The state Republican Party denied the accusation.