How Ted Cruz gets around a key campaign finance rule
SalonUnder U.S. campaign finance law, candidates can directly donate no more than $2000 per election to other candidates. But Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, journalist Roger Sollenberger reports in the Daily Beast, found a way around that when he "poured a staggering $137,183 into the House campaign for Cassy Garcia, his former staffer turned Texas congressional candidate." "Along the way, the tendentious Texan — who regularly pushes campaign finance boundaries and is currently challenging the federal election regulator in the Supreme Court — broke new ground, assuming unlimited spending powers and raising campaign finance red flags," Sollenberger explains in an article published on March 22. "At least, it probably isn't illegal as long as the senator and his former deputy state director never 'coordinated' on the spending — a broad term, which also applies to candidates and super PACs." According to attorney Caleb Burns — who Sollenberger describes as an expert on campaign finance law — Cruz's actions on behalf of Garcia are unusual but appear to be legal.
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