{"id":1397048,"date":"2022-03-23T18:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T22:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397048"},"modified":"2022-03-23T18:14:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T22:14:54","slug":"democrat-tom-malinowski-finds-loophole-to-accept-corporate-pac-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-tom-malinowski-finds-loophole-to-accept-corporate-pac-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Tom Malinowski Finds Loophole to Accept Corporate PAC Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-tom-malinowski-finds-loophole-to-accept-corporate-pac-money%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397048&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Vulnerable Democrat Rep.\u00a0Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), who will have a tough reelection battle, found a way around his \u201cno-corporate PAC pledge.\u201d Throughout the last 18 months, he has accepted campaign contributions from business and professional interest groups.<\/p>\n<p>Malinowski, like many other congressional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2022\/02\/16\/report-democrat-mark-kelly-finds-way-to-accept-corporate-pac-money-around-pledge\/\">members<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/14\/report-democrat-rep-elaine-luria-brings-in-nearly-200k-from-corporate-pacs-after-dropping-pledge\/\">created<\/a> an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/02\/vulnerable-democrat-cindy-axne-breaks-promise-to-not-accept-corporate-pac-money\/\">arbitrary<\/a> pledge not to take any corporate PAC money before being caught sidestepping his own words to build up a war chest. Before the last election, in\u00a0September 2020,\u00a0Malinowski said that he would not\u00a0\u201ctake corporate PAC money, so they don\u2019t own\u201d him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In\u00a0September 2020, he argued that accepting money from other members that take corporate cash is okay because the money is not coming directly from the corporation. He <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Malinowski\/status\/1310003575922319362\">affirmed<\/a> his belief that\u00a0a \u201cno-corporate PAC pledge\u201d is so he is \u201cable to say that I don\u2019t owe them a thing, so I can make decisions solely based on what I think is right for my constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, while he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/?data_type=processed&#038;committee_id=C00656686&#038;contributor_name=congress&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2022\">taken<\/a> at least $200,000 from other members and their leadership PACs, he\u2019s also taken $43,000\u00a0from business interest groups, corporate lobbying giants, and individual corporate lobbyists \u2014 all since taking his pledge in September 2020, according to the Washington Free Beacon, which first <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/tom-malinowski-sidesteps-his-self-imposed-corporate-pac-ban\/\">reported<\/a> on this.<\/p>\n<p>Since October 2020,\u00a0Malinowski has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/?data_type=processed&#038;committee_id=C00656686&#038;contributor_name=Nelson+Mullins&#038;contributor_name=Winning+Strategies&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2022&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2020\">accepted<\/a> $8,250 from\u00a0lobbying group PACs Winning Strategies and\u00a0Nelson Mullins. The two firms have\u00a0represented big\u00a0corporations such as\u00a0BP, Google, and Comcast. The Free Beacon wrote that since September 2020, he has also taken over\u00a0$22,000 from business and professional interest groups like the\u00a0American Council of Engineering Companies and the National Confectioners Association \u2014 which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/clients\/summary?id=D000027831\">spent<\/a>\u00a0$479,000 on lobbying last year alone.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/14\/democrat-tom-malinowski-took-thousands-nord-stream-2-russian-pipeline-lobbyist\/\">reported<\/a>, Malinowski, who has also consistently opposed measures to make America energy independent again, took thousands in donations from a lobbyist for the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Since September 2020,\u00a0Malinowski has accepted $8,600 from\u00a0former Democratic state lawmaker Vincent Roberti.<\/p>\n<p>Roberti runs a firm that has earned millions of dollars lobbying for Nord Stream 2, the pipeline that would transport national gas from Russia to Germany. In fact,\u00a0Roberti\u2019s Malinowski campaign contribution came just months before the Biden administration waived sanctions on the controversial project.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable Democrat Rep.\u00a0Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), who will have a tough reelection battle, found a way around his \u201cno-corporate PAC pledge.\u201d Throughout the last 18 months, he has accepted campaign contributions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}