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The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) on Wednesday filed ethics complaints against Sen. Ted Cruz
According to the CLC, Cruz used campaign funds to pay for Facebook ads promoting his 2020 book “One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History.” The ads ran from Sept. 24 through Oct. 5, according to one of the CLC’s two complaints filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), and cost between $14,400 and $17,697.
The organization noted that Cruz receives a 15 percent royalty for every hardcover sold, in addition to his $400,000 advance from the publisher.
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“Because Cruz receives royalties from book sales, his campaign crossed a legal line by spending donor funds on Facebook ads promoting sales of that book,” CLC director of federal reform, Brendan Fischer, said in a statement. “We don’t know how extensive these violations might be because any similar ads that Cruz may have run on platforms other than Facebook or Google are not publicly
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Exhibit A in a pair of complaints against Senator Ted Cruz, one with the Federal Election Commission and another with the Senate. (Image via Courthouse News)
WASHINGTON (CN) Saying that Senator Ted Cruz illegally used campaign donor funds to promote his book and then received royalties on the book sales, the Campaign Legal Center brought two complaints Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission and Senate Select Committee on Ethics.
The complaints say that Regnery Publishing paid the Texas senator a $400,000 advance, and that every hardcover sale of his book, “One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History