PA Bill Number: HB1472
Title: In primary and election expenses, further providing for reporting by candidate and political committees and other persons and for late contributions ...
Description: In primary and election expenses, further providing for reporting by candidate and political committees and other persons and for late contrib ...
Last Action: Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT
Last Action Date: Apr 22, 2024
Congressional Corruption: (PA) Democrat Madeleine Dean Faces Ethics Complaint for Allegedly Misusing State Campaign Funds :: 02/19/2020
Independent integrity watchdog Americans for Public Trust (APT) submitted a complaint against Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA), affirming that the Pennsylvania Democrat violated federal election regulation and House ethics regulations by utilizing donations for a state race for her congressional race, which reportedly violates FEC contribution rules.
Before Dean turned out to be a member of Congress, she ran for lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. APT contended in their complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) that the Pennsylvania Democrat carried on to spend donations she obtained while running for lieutenant governor, which reportedly violates FEC donation principles.
APT also filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA), contending that the Georgia Democrat allegedly violated federal election law and House ethics rules by coordinating with the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety.
The nonpartisan ethics watchdog contended that contributions to the state campaign would not be subjected to the same reporting contribution boundaries as federal contributions.
Adam Laxalt, an outside counsel for APT, told Breitbart News that allegedly misusing state donations in this manner enables Dean “in theory to raise millions of dollars outside the federal limits and just transfer over” to a congressional race.
“They’re illegal, and they give her a competitive advantage in a congressional race,” the APT outside counsel added.
Former Dean joined the halls of Congress; she was, in fact, an English professor at LaSalle University who taught ethics.
During a campaign rally in the 2018 cycle, former President Barack Obama commended Dean’s tenure as a great ethics professor.
“Moms who fought to protect our kids from gun violence, like Madeleine Dean,” Obama said. “Madeleine taught ethics in college, so, you know, we need that in Congress.”
Read the FEC complaint and the OCE complaint here.
“To renege on that particular campaign pledge seems particularly betrayal to voters,” mentioned outside counsel Laxalt.
