{"id":1985413,"date":"2023-07-28T18:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T22:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-ruben-gallego-may-have-illegally-solicited-donations-watchdog-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T18:48:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T22:48:29","slug":"democrat-ruben-gallego-may-have-illegally-solicited-donations-watchdog-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-ruben-gallego-may-have-illegally-solicited-donations-watchdog-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Ruben Gallego accused of illegal donation solicitation, watchdog claims."},"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-ruben-gallego-may-have-illegally-solicited-donations-watchdog-charges%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=1985413&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--><h2>Rep. Ruben \u2064Gallego (D-AZ) Accused of Unlawfully Soliciting Campaign Contributions<\/h2>\n<p>A\u200b center-right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ethics-questions-raised-about-bidens-son-in-laws-investments-in-covid-19-response\/\" title=\"Ethics Questions Raised about Biden\u2019s Son-in-Law\u2019s Investments in Covid-19 Response\">ethics watchdog<\/a> has accused Rep. \u2062Ruben Gallego\u200c (D-AZ) of unlawfully &#8220;soliciting campaign contributions linked to official action.&#8221; The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) is calling on\u200d the\u2064 Office \u200dof Congressional Ethics to\u200c investigate whether Gallego violated House \u2063rules \u2063by promoting legislation while soliciting committee contributions.<\/p>\n<h3>Allegations\u200d and Complaint<\/h3>\n<p>The complaint, filed by FACT, highlights an email sent by Gallego&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/campaign-2024-an-early-look-at-the-possible-republican-contenders\/\" title=\"Campaign 2024: An Early Look At The Possible Republican Contenders\">reelection campaign<\/a>. The email specifically mentions Gallego&#8217;s introduction of the Excess Urban Heat Mitigation and \u2064Extreme \u200dHeat Emergency Acts and includes an option to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netflixs-reed-hastings-gives-3-million-to-a-fund-opposing-newsom-recall\/\" title=\"Netflix\u2019s Reed Hastings Gives  Million To A Fund Opposing Newsom Recall\">committee contribution<\/a>.\u2062 FACT&#8217;s\u200c Executive Director,\u200d Kendra Arnold, argues that this \u200dtype of fundraising undermines\u200d public confidence in elected officials and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-ruben-gallego-may-have-illegally-solicited-donations-watchdog-charges\/\" title=\"Democrat Ruben Gallego accused of illegal donation solicitation, watchdog claims.\">potentially violates \u200dethics rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>2024 Arizona Senate Election<\/h3>\n<p>The complaint arrives as Gallego prepares for the 2024 Arizona\u200c Senate election. Independent Senator \u200bKyrsten Sinema may enter the race, alongside\u200c Republican candidate Mark Lamb and potential candidate Kari Lake, a former Republican gubernatorial candidate.<\/p>\n<h3>Linking Legislation \u2062and Fundraising<\/h3>\n<p>The fundraising email cited \u200bin FACT&#8217;s complaint \u2064asks the public to contribute $3, $20, or more. Above the donation request, the email urges recipients to add their names in support \u200dof the\u2063 legislation. FACT argues that Gallego&#8217;s email improperly connects a\u2064 specific piece of legislation\u2062 with a solicitation for campaign donations, violating\u2064 ethics rules and damaging public confidence in elected officials.<\/p>\n<h3>Response and Investigation<\/h3>\n<p>The Washington Examiner reached out \u200bto\u2064 Gallego&#8217;s\u200c campaign for comment, but no response \u2062has been provided yet. The Office of \u200bCongressional Ethics will launch an investigation\u200c if two \u2064members of its board request an\u2062 escalation. Any findings\u2062 of wrongdoing \u200cwill then be referred to the House Ethics \u200bCommittee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to\u2062 read more\u200c from the Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) is accused by a center-right ethics watchdog of illegally seeking campaign donations tied to official actions. Gallego, running for Senate in Arizona, allegedly referenced his introduction of the Excess Urban Heat Mitigation and Extreme Heat Emergency Acts in a recent campaign email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1985414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985413","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}