NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has zero plans to run for office again after financial concerns

Liberal New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof insists he has “zero plans” to seek elected office again in the wake of criticism for failing to disclose he was covering people who donated to his campaign for governor of Oregon in 2021 and questions about unused campaign funds. Kristof, who briefly left the Times in 2021 to run for governor of Oregon as a Democrat, returned to the newspaper in 2022 after he was deemed ineligible because of the state’s three-year residency requirement. Times journalists are prohibited from political activity, including fundraising or campaigning for officials seeking election, but Kristof was sitting on an unused pile of cash after thriving in the fundraising department during his short-lived bid for office. The Times told Fox News Digital last month that it was reviewing Kristof’s work after Semafor reported that he failed to disclose that subjects of his columns previously donated to his political campaign. When asked for an update on the internal probe into Kristof’s past work, a New York Times spokesperson provided the links to nine different columns that now feature an editors’ note.A Times spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the internal review regarding disclosure is now complete.“The only independent press ethics expert who has looked at my conduct related to campaign donations has confirmed that everything was ethical,” Kristof told Fox News Digital.Meanwhile, Kristof transferred roughly $1 million that remained in his campaign war chest into a new political action committee named Oregon Strong, run by his wife Sheryl WuDunn, in 2022 as he was set to return to the Times. “In other words, nearly half the money Kristof raised for his political bid remains under family control,” Rolling Stone wrote in August 2022. Kristof told Rolling Stone that it would use the cash to fund job training programs in Oregon.He also said that Oregon Strong would be “nonpolitical,” despite promising to su...