{"id":1799928,"date":"2023-01-09T11:35:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1799928"},"modified":"2023-01-09T11:35:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:35:24","slug":"dscc-paid-illegal-alien-for-campaign-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dscc-paid-illegal-alien-for-campaign-services\/","title":{"rendered":"DSCC Paid Illegal Alien for Campaign Services"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fdscc-paid-illegal-alien-for-campaign-services%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=1799928&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4ca319d9-7d58-4093-bac6-8ab75a674141-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>During the 2022 midterm elections, the Democrats paid half a million dollars to an Arizona company called La Machine Consulting for canvassing work and other campaign services. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that since many such companies do business all over the country and both parties make use of their services. Or at least there <em>wouldn\u2019t<\/em> be anything wrong with that except for one potentially glaring problem. As Chuck Ross <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/flat-out-violation-democrats-broke-federal-law-with-payments-to-illegal-immigrant-experts-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports at the Free Beacon<\/a> this week, La Machine Consulting is owned by Antonio Valdovinos. And Mr. Valdovinos proudly portrays himself as a \u201cdreamer,\u201d meaning that he\u2019s not a citizen and is not in the country legally, even though he received a deferment under DACA. And the FEC frowns on that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Democrats paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a consulting firm operated by an illegal alien, which experts say may have violated campaign finance laws.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Valdovinos, the owner of the Arizona-based La Machine Consulting, has made his status as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient central to his personal narrative. He boasts of his \u201cundocumented\u201d status on his firm\u2019s website and produced an off-Broadway musical,\u201d\u00a1Americano!,\u201d about life as a \u201cDreamer.\u201d Valdovinos\u2019s immigration status could cause a problem for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which\u00a0<a id=\"reader.external-link.num-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/disbursements\/?data_type=processed&#038;recipient_name=la+machine+\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paid<\/a>\u00a0his firm, La Machine Consulting, $500,000 to canvas in three battleground states ahead of the 2022 midterm election.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Under Federal Election Commission laws, they classify DACA recipients as foreign nationals. And foreign nationals cannot \u201cdirectly or indirectly\u201d participate in the \u201cdecision-making process\u201d of any campaign or political committees\u2019 election-related activities. Canvassing is obviously an \u201celection-related activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, for either the DSCC or Valdovinos to actually get hauled before a judge over this it would require someone in either the FEC or the Justice Department to take action. As it turns out, Antonio Valdovinos had already gotten into trouble over this in the past. In 2021 he was charged with campaign finance violations for the same reason. But the FEC mysteriously exercised \u201cprosecutorial discretion\u201d and opted not to take action against him.<\/p>\n<p>Do you suppose that the clients who have engaged Valdovinos might have anything to do with this exercise in prosecutorial discretion? Or that his \u201cinspiring personal narrative\u201d might be playing a role? In addition to the DSCC, La Machine Consulting has also done work for Congressman Ruben Gallego and Senator Mark Kelly, among others. Do you notice any similarities popping up on the La Machine client list? If you said, \u2018<em>they\u2019re all Democrats<\/em>,\u2019 give yourself a cookie.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Valdovinos is a dreamer on top of having financial ties to prominent liberal political figures. As long as the Democrats are in charge, do you really think anyone will be holding him or the DSCC accountable for \u201ca flat-out violation of federal law,\u201d as campaign finance attorney Dan Backer called it in a statement to the Free Beacon?\u00a0 Somehow I don\u2019t think they\u2019re losing any sleep over this.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, perhaps I\u2019m wrong. In 2021, the FEC fined Bernie Sanders\u2019 campaign $15,000 for employing three DACA recipients during the 2020 primary election. Of course, the Democrats never really like Sanders much when he thinks about running for higher office. But who knows? Perhaps the FEC can eventually feel too embarrassed to keep ignoring things like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2022 midterm elections, the Democrats paid half a million dollars to an Arizona company called La Machine Consulting for canvassing work and other campaign services. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that since many such companies do business all over the country and both parties make use of their services. 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