Sen. Ted Cruz Accused Of Using Campaign Funds To Promote His Book
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has accused Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) of violating campaign finance rules by using donor funds to promote his book. The book, One Vote Away: How A Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History, was released in September. The nonpartisan government watchdog group claimed that Cruz’s campaign spent up to $18,000 on Facebook advertisements that “exclusively” urged followers to buy copies of his book by embedding links to third-party online booksellers. “Because Cruz receives royalties from book sales, his campaign crossed a legal line by spending donor funds on Facebo...