Geoff Dorman
08/19/22
(Nevada Appeal) – The activist group End Citizens United has filed a complaint against U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt charging he used his Morning in Nevada PAC to announce his candidacy last August. “In 2021, at the Morning in Nevada PAC’s annual Basque Fry, Laxalt and Republican allies fostered support for his 2022 Senate candidacy, despite him still being listed as the current president of the PAC,” the complaint said. “By using the 2021 Basque Fry to effectively announce his candidacy, the cost of the event results in an in-kind contribution that, by law, cannot exceed $5,000,” the complaint charges, adding that the cost of the event was at least $18,991. Laxalt is the Republican nominee in the Senate race. The former state attorney general, who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2018, is trying to unseat Democrat U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.