{"id":1991341,"date":"2023-08-04T18:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T22:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cori-bush-hit-with-ethics-complaint-for-allegedly-using-government-resources-for-campaigning\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T22:36:15","slug":"cori-bush-hit-with-ethics-complaint-for-allegedly-using-government-resources-for-campaigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cori-bush-hit-with-ethics-complaint-for-allegedly-using-government-resources-for-campaigning\/","title":{"rendered":"Cori Bush faces ethics complaint over alleged misuse of government resources for campaigning."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fcori-bush-hit-with-ethics-complaint-for-allegedly-using-government-resources-for-campaigning%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=1991341&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. Cori Bush Faces Ethics Complaint for Allegedly Misusing Government Resources<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO)\u2063 is under scrutiny as \u200ca watchdog group, the \u200dFoundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, has filed an ethics \u2064complaint against her. The complaint alleges that Bush utilized government resources for campaign \u200bfundraising purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint was sent to the House Office of Congressional Ethics after Bush shared a\u200b video clip of a \u200dHouse proceeding\u200b in a tweet that included a fundraising link. This action prompted \u2063the watchdog group to question the appropriateness of her behavior.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Rep. Bush\u2062 disrupted official \u2064House proceedings with outrageous and unprofessional behavior and\u2062 then campaigned and fundraised off of it. Moreover, \u200cto do so she used\u200d official\u200b House\u2062 government \u2062resources, namely video \u200bfootage of official House floor\u2063 proceedings,&#8221; the complaint stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In July, Bush interrupted Rep.\u200d Steve Scalise (R-LA) during remarks on the House floor, accusing his bills of \u200dbeing racist. \u2064She later quote-tweeted a video of the incident, expressing further grievances with the GOP&#8217;s bills.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t get to finish. Their bills are also sexist, patriarchal, xenophobic, classist, homophobic, and transphobic,&#8221; Bush asserted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What drew additional attention was that Bush included a fundraising link to her House campaign in her reply to the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The violation, according to the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, stems from House members not\u2062 being allowed to \u2062use House proceedings \u2062for campaign or \u200bpolitical purposes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The legal violation in this case is obvious and there are \u200bno facts that can excuse it\u2014Bush used official House proceedings and resources for political\u200c purposes. Video of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cori-bush-hit-with-ethics-complaint-for-allegedly-using-government-resources-for-campaigning\/\" title=\"Cori Bush faces ethics complaint over alleged misuse of government resources for campaigning.\">official house floor proceedings<\/a> is an\u200d official resource, and both using it for political purposes and posting \u200dit on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/get-ready-for-a-plethora-of-election-deniers-and-this-time-the-media-will-be-cohorts\/\" title=\"Get Ready For A Plethora Of Election Deniers (And This Time, The Media Will Be Cohorts)\">campaign social media account<\/a> are violations of the ethics rules,&#8221; the complaint explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The complaint \u200dfurther \u2062emphasized that it is irrelevant whether Bush obtained the video from CSPAN or any other entity because members are\u200c prohibited from using official footage for political purposes. The fact that Bush shared the video on her campaign social media account and directly fundraised from\u200c it demonstrates a disregard for the law, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Bush has faced ethics complaints. She has previously been accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-exposed-inflated-covid-deaths-by-1600-throughout-the-election-violated-multiple-federal-laws-peer-reviewed-study-findsstate-local-governments-must-act\/\" title=\"CDC Exposed: Inflated Covid Deaths By 1600% Throughout The Election, \u201cViolated Multiple Federal Laws\u201d Peer-Reviewed Study Finds\u2026State, Local Governments Must Act\">violating federal law<\/a> by using campaign funds to pay her husband.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) faces an ethics complaint from a watchdog group, accused of misusing government resources for campaign fundraising. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust lodged a complaint with the House Office of Congressional Ethics. This came after Bush shared a video clip of a House proceeding in a tweet, as per allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1991342,"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-1991341","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\/1991341","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=1991341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}