{"id":1579315,"date":"2022-07-29T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T18:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579315"},"modified":"2022-07-29T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T18:56:18","slug":"exclusive-florida-dem-candidate-may-have-illegally-transferred-campaign-assets-complaint-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-florida-dem-candidate-may-have-illegally-transferred-campaign-assets-complaint-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Florida Dem Candidate May Have Illegally Transferred Campaign Assets, Complaint Alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fexclusive-florida-dem-candidate-may-have-illegally-transferred-campaign-assets-complaint-alleges%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=1579315&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--><ul>\n<li> <strong>The Federal Election Commission (FEC) should investigate if a former Florida gubernatorial candidate now running for U.S. House illegally transferred assets between her two campaigns,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>a watchdog alleged in a complaint obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/strong> <\/li>\n<li><strong>Annette Taddeo released a congressional campaign ad in June that appears to have ripped footage from her gubernatorial campaign ad released roughly seven months earlier, the complaint said.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cThe law is quite clear\u2014federal candidates cannot use funds or assets from a state campaign because doing so would be a violation of the federal contribution limits and reporting requirements,\u201d said Kendra Arnold, executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, the group that filed the complaint.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Federal Election Commission (FEC) should investigate whether a Democratic Florida congressional candidate illegally transferred assets from her prior gubernatorial campaign, a watchdog alleged in a complaint obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Annette Taddeo is a Florida state senator who <a href=\"https:\/\/wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu\/politics-issues\/2022-06-07\/annette-taddeo-withdraws-democratic-candidate-florida-governor\">withdrew<\/a> from the gubernatorial primary in June to instead run to unseat Florida Republican Rep. Maria Salazar. But Taddeo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l3rRtygbZgU\">released<\/a> a congressional campaign ad that seemingly ripped footage from her prior gubernatorial campaign ad, raising legal questions, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) <a href=\"https:\/\/65db7681-e755-4cff-abe7-1d9e373df4db.usrfiles.com\/ugd\/65db76_54e75fe109b943b2ab43749577664806.pdf\">detailed<\/a> in a Friday FEC complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Taddeo\u2019s 2021 gubernatorial campaign ad is two minutes and 21 seconds and depicts the candidate speaking about her family and upbringing, among other things. Her 2022 congressional ad, which is two minutes and nine seconds, includes \u201cidentical footage for the first one minute and twenty seconds,\u201d FACT said in its complaint. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/13\/democrat-candidate-broke-disclosing-senior-role\/\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Democrat Candidate Broke Law Not Disclosing \u2018Senior\u2019 Role In Venture Fund, Watchdog Alleges)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law is quite clear\u2014federal candidates cannot use funds or assets from a state campaign because doing so would be a violation of the federal contribution limits and reporting requirements,\u201d Kendra Arnold, executive director of FACT, told the DCNF. \u201cIn this case, the video footage, and in turn nearly the whole advertisement, was obviously from a prior state campaign and is an asset of that campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/52\/30101\">illegal<\/a> for a federal campaign to use the assets from a state campaign \u2014 including \u201cany gift, subscription, loan, advance, or deposit of money or anything of value made by any person for the purpose of influencing any election for Federal office.\u201d It is also illegal for federal candidates to solicit, receive, direct, transfer or spend \u201cnon-federal\u201d campaign funds from their own race for a federal election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/cfr\/text\/11\/300.63\">according<\/a> to federal law.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7488796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7488796\" class=\"wp-image-7488796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.33.41-AM.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.33.41-AM.png 1266w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.33.41-AM-146x120.png 146w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.33.41-AM-620x511-1.png 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.33.41-AM-768x633-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.33.41-AM-1536x1266-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.33.41-AM-2048x1688-1.png 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7488796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot\/FEC Complaint\/Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust\/July 29<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Taddeo\u2019s congressional campaign could have legally paid her gubernatorial campaign for an ad asset, said Arnold. However, Taddeo\u2019s congressional campaign did not disclose any payments to her gubernatorial campaign on an FEC <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00445163\/1617343\/sb\/ALL\">report<\/a> filed on July 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the fact that her Congressional campaign utilized video footage from her state gubernatorial campaign, Taddeo for Congress\u2019 public reports show it did not make any disbursements to her nonfederal gubernatorial campaign committee for the cost of the video footage,\u201d FACT said in its complaint.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7488834\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7488834\" class=\"wp-image-7488834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.51.53-AM.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.51.53-AM.png 1278w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.51.53-AM-158x120.png 158w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.51.53-AM-620x471-1.png 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.51.53-AM-768x583-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.51.53-AM-1536x1165-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.51.53-AM-2048x1554-1.png 2048w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-10.51.53-AM-70x52.png 70w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7488834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot\/FEC Complaint\/Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust\/July 29, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAny video taken for Taddeo\u2019s state campaign is an asset of that campaign,\u201d FACT also said. \u201cFilming video footage requires camera crews, equipment, participants, coordination, and planning, all of which require expenditures of campaign funds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the FEC told the DCNF that \u201cgenerally speaking\u201d any candidate\u2019s authorized campaign committee for federal office \u201cmay not accept funds or assets transferred from a committee established by the same candidate for a nonfederal election campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s 27th Congressional District, where Taddeo also ran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/florida\/story\/2016\/05\/taddeo-loses-campaign-manager-communications-director-102307\">in<\/a> 2016,\u00a0will have its primary on Aug. 23. The district\u00a0will \u201clikely\u201d stay Republican in the 2022 midterms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/2022-election\/race-forecasts-ratings-and-predictions\/florida\/house\/district-27\/\">according<\/a> to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Taddeo\u2019s congressional campaign did not respond to the DCNF\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Election Commission (FEC) should investigate if a former Florida gubernatorial candidate now running for U.S. House illegally transferred assets between her two campaigns,\u00a0a watchdog alleged in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"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-1579315","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\/1579315","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\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579315\/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=1579315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}