There is no suggestion a privately funded side-trip would be illegal, but it would muddy the waters of his defence of the nature of his travel.
For over a century, taxpayer-funded public schools that were governed by locally elected school boards lived side-by-side with privately funded and governed non-sectarian and religiously-affiliated schools.
The current majority of the Supreme Court was brought to its position with funding and backing of those on that other side -- corporate-funded conservatives.
But referenda aren't always measures of true popular will so much as they are tests of how passionate, committed, well-funded and well-organized each side in a debate is.
Announced in late December out of his frustration regarding how Twitter neglected and eventually shut down Vine, Hofmann had since built a creative tool startup called Byte, and is still leading a virtual reality company called Interspace, but was trying to run V2 as a self-funded personal project on the side.
Mississippi resident and grandmother Linda St. Martin, a thorn in the side of petrochemical-funded politicians like Gov. Haley Barbour, has driven thousands of miles over the past six months to areas impacted by this historic oil disaster.
He said the broadcaster "set pay between the state-funded sector and commercial sector, and we are much more on the side of the state-funded sector".
The state-funded agency also works the other side of the deal, as a resource for people who want to be part of the film and television industry whether it be as makeup artist, screenwriter or electrician.
Clinton supporters argue that if the administration had taken her suggested route, a vacuum would not have been created on the opposition side, into which Gulf-funded extremists have poured in.
What's worse is this kind of half-baked reporting caters to one side -- the well-funded conservative side -- of what needs to be a serious and complete national debate on the country's priorities.
Honestly, it is surprising that in a country which always made a clear distinction between advertising-funded and licence-fee funded broadcasters the differences regarding the content side is much more blurred.
