Anonymous ID: c11a60 July 25, 2024, 6:25 p.m. No.21294068   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4422 >>4465

Kamala Harris Accused of 'Egregious Violation' of Federal Law in Campaign Finance Complaint

 

https://www.westernjournal.com/kamala-harris-accused-egregious-violation-federal-law-campaign-finance-complaint/

 

Does Vice President Kamala Harris’ run for president have a right to inherit the Biden-for-president campaign war chest?

 

Not if a heavyweight conservative group has anything to say about it.

 

The conservative group, Citizens United, and Republican Party officials from 16 states and the Virgin Islands have filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission aimed at stopping what the groups call an “egregious violation” of federal election law.

 

In the complaint filed Wednesday, the group Citizens United and the GOP officials objected to Harris taking over more than $90 million in campaign funds raised before Sunday’s announcement that President Joe Biden was dropping out of the race.

 

The complaint demanded the FEC “investigate this unlawful conversion of campaign funds and assets without delay.”

 

“It speaks volumes that more so-called ‘good government’ groups aren’t sounding the alarm about this egregious violation,” a news release announcing the complaint said.

 

The root of the complaint is simple: Whatever their current offices are, neither Biden nor Harris are currently their party’s nominee for president.

 

The complaint cited federal election law — US Code 16(a)(7)(D) — which states that “contributions made to or for the benefit of any candidate nominated by a political party for election to the office of Vice President of the United States shall be considered to be contributions made to or for the benefit of the candidate of such party for election to the office of President of the United States.”

 

It also cited an advisory opinion that, according to the complaint, was issued by the FEC in 2008 (when Biden sought the Democratic nomination against a field that included Barack Obama). The opinion said, according to the complaint, that “presidential and vice presidential candidates of the same political party may share a single authorized committee so long as they are the nominees of that party.”

 

Since neither Biden nor Harris have been officially nominated, according to the complaint, Harris is ineligible to take over the war chest.

 

Citizens United is a conservative organization, of course, but even the liberal NPR acknowledged in a report on Tuesday that there were questions about the money….moar at link