The
Washington Post has chosen to report on Republicans’ schemes of boosting book sales while ignoring Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) use of a similar method in 2015.
Peter Schweizer, author of
The Speech, while receiving $6,700 in royalties from the 2015 purchases.
“I wrote a best-selling book,” the socialist declared in defense of his wealth during the 2020 presidential campaign. “If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.”
Bernie’s book about “corporate greed, income inequality and the decline of the middle class” ignited his second book,
Our Revolution, which earned him $70,484 in royalties. “In 2017, the book royalties added up to $880,091.14. And last year, while they dipped, they still were a chunk of money: $392,810.37,” according to Politico.
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GOP Groups Spent $1 Million Bulk-Buying Candidates’ Books – and Helping Make Them Bestsellers
A government watchdog group says Sen. Ted Cruz violated rules by using campaign funds on mass-purchases of his latest bookJ. Clara Chan | April 16, 2021 @ 12:18 PM
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The Republican National Committee and three other party-affiliated organizations spent more than $1 million mass purchasing books by GOP candidates in the past election cycle, according to reports from the Federal Election Commission reviewed by The Washington Post.
Some of those purchases included nearly $400,000 spent by the National Republican Congressional Committee on 25,500 copies of Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s memoir, “Fortitude,” almost $90,000 spent by the Senate Conservatives Fund on bulk purchases of Sen. Tom Cotton’s “Sacred Duty” and nearly $65,000 on advance purchases of Sen. Josh Hawley’s forthcoming book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” and about $400,000spent by the RNC on two books by Dona
13 Apr 2021
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), could face a possible ethics probe in the House of Representatives after an independent ethics watchdog asked Congress’s independent ethics office to start one.
A nonprofit ethics watchdog, Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, had written a letter Tuesday to ask Congress to use their independent ethics office to launch an ethics probe into Maloney’s filings. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust Executive Director, Kendra Arnold, wrote a letter to the House of Representatives Office of Congressional Ethics on Tuesday, citing
Business Insider as their evidence.
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