Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 9:35 AM click to enlarge Wikimedia Commons / Gage Skidmore U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz smirks from the stage at a 2019 event hosted by conservative group Turning Point USA. Amid U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz s unending flood of bluster and bullshit from mocking VP Kamala Harris for going to a bakery to hurling empty threats at Major League Baseball it might have been easy to overlook real news that broke this week about Texas junior senator. Namely that a watchdog group filed a pair of ethics complaints accusing the GOP lawmaker of using campaign money to promote a book he released last fall. Politicos are barred from using campaign cash for personal gain.
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Watchdog group accuses Texas Sen. Cruz of using campaign funds to market his book Elizabeth Thompson, The Dallas Morning News © Stefani Reynolds/Pool/Getty Images North America/TNS Ted Cruz violated federal campaign finance law and Senate ethics rules by spending up to $18,000 of campaign funds on Facebook advertisements promoting his book.
A political campaign watchdog has accused Texas Sen. Ted Cruz of improperly using campaign funds to pay for Facebook ads marketing his 2020 book on the Supreme Court.
The Campaign Legal Center filed complaints to the Senate ethics committee and the Federal Election Commission Wednesday alleging that Cruz violated federal campaign finance law and Senate ethics rules by spending up to $18,000 of campaign funds on Facebook advertisements promoting his book “One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History” while he was earning royalties for the book.
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Sen. Ted Cruz used campaign funds to run adverts urging people to buy his book, a watchdog said.
The Campaign Legal Center said the adverts were illegal because he receives royalties on his book.
That means he could have been using campaign money for personal gain, the CLC said.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz illegally used campaign funds to run adverts urging viewers to buy his book, a watchdog has alleged.
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC), a watchdog which works to reduce the influence of money in politics, this week filed two complaints against Sen. Cruz which allege that the senator had misused up to $18,000 of campaign funds to promote his book.
The world of conservative book sales is one big grift. Regnery Press is so often in the middle of it.
It s so bad that conservative authors unsuccessfully sued Regnery themselves in 2007 for giving away bulk buys of their titles to inflate sales, while cutting the authors royalties.
Many conservatives buy their own books in bulk in an attempt to get on the New York Times Bestseller List. These days the Times puts a dagger emoji next to those listed that benefit from so-called bulk sales.
Ted Cruz, or at least his publisher, tried to get around the bulk sales emoji by hiring
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