{"id":2223492,"date":"2024-04-17T16:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ethics-watchdog-calls-for-investigation-into-aoc-using-house-video-for-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T16:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T20:57:26","slug":"ethics-watchdog-calls-for-investigation-into-aoc-using-house-video-for-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ethics-watchdog-calls-for-investigation-into-aoc-using-house-video-for-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics group urges probe into AOC&#8217;s use of House video for campaign"},"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\">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%2Fethics-watchdog-calls-for-investigation-into-aoc-using-house-video-for-campaign%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=2223492&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--><p>The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust is urging the Office of Congressional \u200bEthics to investigate Rep. \u2062Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for incorporating House video into her\u200d campaign promotion. \u2062Instances were flagged \u200bwhere Ocasio-Cortez shared videos of herself speaking in the \u2064House\u2062 on her campaign&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a>, raising concerns about the potential violation of federal laws \u200cand House rules.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>A watchdog group is calling on the Office of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Congressional<\/a> Ethics to investigate Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> (D-NY) for using video of House proceedings in the promotion of her election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/65db7681-e755-4cff-abe7-1d9e373df4db.usrfiles.com\/ugd\/65db76_d05b99009bf544ee834ad2764ed51dee.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>report<\/a> highlighted four instances in which Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s <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> reposted videos of herself speaking on the House floor. Federal law and House rules prohibit congressional members from utilizing official House resources, which are funded by taxpayers and evoke the authority of the government,\u00a0for their own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>campaign<\/a> use.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) attends the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference at Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Virginia, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe law is quite clear that Members cannot use official resources, and specifically House video, for political purposes,\u201d Kendra Arnold, executive director of FACT, said. \u201cThis law not only safeguards taxpayer-funded resources from abuse, but it upholds the integrity of official proceedings by minimizing the incentive for Members to use them for their own personal political gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/ethics.house.gov\/campaign\/general-prohibition-against-using-official-resources-campaign-or-political-purposes#:~:text=In%20addition%2C%20under%20House%20Rule,any%20person%20for%20public%20office.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>House rules<\/a>, members are strictly prohibited from using photographs and video of the House floor or committee proceedings for campaigning. When it comes to a member\u2019s campaign social media account, they cannot link any official content or resources nor include a link to the member\u2019s account. <\/p>\n<p>On Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s personal account, she first retweeted a post on Feb. 16 from commentator Kaivan Shroff that shows a video of her asking a question to Michael Cohen during a committee hearing in 2019.\u00a0She announced plans to run for reelection on Feb. 22.<\/p>\n<p>On March 13, she retweeted a post from the account of Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), which shows a clip of House proceedings and includes McGovern calling for President Joe Biden to end military aid to Israel. On March 22, Ocasio-Cortez retweeted two clips of herself speaking during House proceedings, one retweeted from her account and one from journalist Aaron Rupar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important that the position of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/does-citizenship-mean-much-anymore\/\" title=\"Does Citizenship Mean Much Anymore?\">elected federal official<\/a> not be unduly leveraged for political purposes,\u201d Arnold said. \u201cThis is not a one-time occurrence for Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, she has repeatedly disregarded this law and the OCE should take swift action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s office did not respond to the <em>Washington Examiner\u2019s<\/em> request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust urges the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for sharing House footage in her campaign. The report flagged four cases where her campaign account featured videos of her speaking in the House, possibly violating ethics rules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2542,"featured_media":2223493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24039821012422-1024x685.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24039821012422-1024x685.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223492","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\/2542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}