AOC, Pelosi misuse official resources for campaign purposes with 'disdain' for law: complaint

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/aoc-pelosi-misuse-official-
resources-for-campaign-purposes-with-disdain-for-law-complaint/ar-BB1h8Q85

Agovernment watchdog group has filed a formal complaint against some
Democrat members of congress who have used official government resources
for political campaign purposes, in violation of congressional ethics
codes.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a nonprofit
watchdog group, lodged a formal complaint with the Office of Congressional
Ethics (OCE), alleging that dozens of House members are using official
House resources "for political purposes…the most obvious violations being
members using official government resources to campaign on their political
social media accounts or using official government platforms to campaign."

"Though to some it may seem like a simple thing on the surface, the
members choosing to break this law do it for a reason—it advantages them
politically," the complaint states. Included in the list of alleged
transgressors are former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Reps.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Cori Bush, D-Mo., Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.,
among others.

"The act of using sanctioned government platforms or resources to spread
political messages furthers their cause by both giving the member a wider
and less partisan audience than their campaign platforms have, and also by
lending their message an ‘official’ credibility that it would not
otherwise have," it reads.

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FACT argues that the lawmakers are in violation of federal law, which
sates that "appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which
the appropriations were made except as otherwise provided by law."

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House ethics rules aim to enforce this law by also prohibiting members
from using any official resource for campaign or political purposes. An
"official resource" is anything funded by taxpayers. Examples include: all
government buildings and House offices, a member’s official website and
social media accounts, and photographs and video from the House floor or
committee proceedings, the complaint outlines.

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Specifically, the complaint cites the Committee on Ethics memo from July
2018 which states that a member’s campaign social media account "may not
share, like, retweet, etc., a post from an official social media account."

"Making this situation worse," the complaint says, "is the nature of the
transgression and the ease of proving it— there are no reams of documents
to fine-comb through here. Many of these violations are literally
published by the Member on a public-facing platform, and evidence of the
violation can be found and proven merely by going to Twitter.com."

FACT notes that OCE has previously identified "this exact same behavior as
ethics violations in past years, but it has simply failed to enforce"
them.

The OCE was created in 2008 after the House Ethics Committee "failed to
act on legal and ethical violations committed by members, which plainly
demonstrated the Ethics Committee’s consistent reluctance to impose
penalties against their fellow members and the inadequacy of the U.S.
House to self-police," the complaint highlights.

"The OCE was designed to act on the public’s behalf and be an independent
evaluator to expose ethics violations—not to fall in line with the Ethics
Committee and follow its example of inaction. While the ultimate
punishment for violations continues to lie with the House Ethics
Committee, the OCE’s role is to identify ethical transgressions and bring
the facts and laws to the attention of the public, as well as to the
Ethics Committee," it reads.


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