KING 5 News has this story about the City of Bellevue allegedly using city tax money to support a campaign on a ballot measure to increase taxes for parks. The use of tax money to support campaigns is completely illegal.
How do we know about this? You guessed it:
"The KING 5 Investigators have obtained e-mails indicating the relationship [between the city and the campaign] was so cozy the campaign committee even asked the parks department to produce and pay for one of its mailers because of the campaign's 'limited resources.'"