Buttigieg campaign hit with campaign finance complaint

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A campaign finance watchdog has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging Pete Buttigieg’s campaign illegally coordinated advertising with a super PAC.

VoteVets, a super PAC that supports military veterans in politics and has thrown its support behind Buttigieg, bought more than $630,000 in television advertising in Nevada — a move that came one week after Buttigieg campaign strategist Michael Halle tweeted that the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor would benefit from his military record being on the airwaves in Nevada through the caucuses, which are on Feb. 22.

The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, which works to lessen the influence of money in politics, said in its complaint filed Tuesday that “there is reason to believe that VoteVets made, and the Buttigieg campaign accepted, over $639,000 in illegal and excessive in-kind contributions in the form of coordinated communications.”

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/pete-buttigieg-vote-vets-fec-complain-212121222.html

 

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Good! He needs to be held accountable 

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Tweet's text: “Pete’s military experience and closing message from Iowa work everywhere especially in Nevada where it’s critical they see this on the air through the caucus.”

What the law says: "Allow exceptions “if the information material to the creation, production, or distribution of the communication was obtained from a publicly available source,”.

 

 

 

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Campaign Legal Center...

The same kind of groups that bring legal actions that are dismissed quickly just to smear campaigns in headlines.