Last week, End Citizens United filed an FEC complaint against Adam Laxalt for blatantly violating campaign finance law by controlling Morning in Nevada PAC, a state PAC, while running as a federal candidate, and continuing to receive prohibited in-kind contributions from the PAC.
This weekend, that’s what Nevadans read and heard about Adam Laxalt:
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KRNV – Laxalt accused of violating campaign finance law
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The complaint alleges that Laxalt violated campaign finance laws by using the Basque Fry to promote his campaign while being President of the PAC that organized it. Laxalt was the president of the more of the Morning in Nevada PAC until August of last year.
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KLAS – Laxalt accused of breaking campaign finance law
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The complaint alleges Laxalt broke the law by using an Annual GOP cookout to promote his campaign while he was president of the PAC that organized the event.
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Las Vegas Review Journal – Laxalt faces formal complaint over campaign finance
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End Citizens United, which endorses and supports Democratic candidates who back campaign finance reform, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission asking for an investigation into Laxalt over his involvement with the annual Basque Fry put on by his Morning in Nevada PAC.
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Laxalt was listed as president of Morning in Nevada during the 2021 iteration of the Basque Fry, and he had not yet formally announced that he was running for the Senate to challenge Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto at that point.
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The complaint says that because several of the speakers that year hinted at or outright proclaimed Laxalt’s candidacy, the event — as well as this year’s iteration — should have been deemed an in-kind contribution that would have exceeded the federal limit. The complaint also claims Laxalt used the Nevada PAC to get around federal campaign finance restrictions on money raised and spent.
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“Adam Laxalt is illegally using Morning in Nevada PAC to break campaign finance laws and get away with taking big corporate money for his campaign. He embodies the corrupt political campaign practices that Nevadans resoundly reject,” End Citizens United President Tiffany Muller said in a written statement.
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Associated Press – Democratic PAC says Adam Laxalt violated campaign finance law
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A political action committee backing Democratic candidates filed a complaint Friday alleging that Nevada Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt violated campaign finance laws by using an annual GOP cookout to promote his campaign while he was president of the PAC that organized it.
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The Basque Fry is run by the Morning in Nevada PAC, which Laxalt was the president of until August 2021, when his candidacy for U.S. Senate was announced. By allegedly controlling a state PAC as a federal candidate, he violated Federal Election Commission guidelines, said End Citizens United in its complaint.
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Nevada Appeal – Complaint charges Laxalt violated federal election law
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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.
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“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.
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“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.
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Politico Morning Score – Progressive group End Citizens United filed a complaint with the FEC against Republican Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt
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The group alleges that Laxalt was “controlling a soft money organization while a federal candidate, and that Laxalt received, and Morning in Nevada PAC made, excessive, unreported, and potentially prohibited in-kind contributions.” The group wrote in the complaint that Laxalt used the 2021 Basque Fry event, an annual Republican cookout run by the Morning in Nevada PAC — which he was president of until August 2021 — “to foster support for his 2022 Senate candidacy.”
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