EXCLUSIVE: Ted Cruz poured a staggering $137,183 into the House campaign for Cassy Garcia, his former staffer turned Texas congressional candidate. Experts say the move appears unprecedented but isn't illegal. Here's how he did it:
Of that $128,000, the Garcia campaign’s available reports show only $11,738 in expenses, for accounting, research, credit card processing, a trade name, and $600 for web design. Cruz’s leadership PAC nearly covered that bill, too, with itsAnd while it’s likely that Garcia did make more expenditures on her own behalf in the 20-day gap between her last available report and primary day, there are gaps.
“A campaign should be free to engage in independent expenditures on behalf of other candidates based on both constitutional concerns and the FEC’s existing regulations,” Burns said, noting that he’d explored the question even before the Supreme Court’sBurns observed that this type of campaign spending is “exceedingly rare,” and offered an explanation—candidates want to hold onto their campaign cash, because it’s the only money they can spend on their own election efforts.
To be sure, campaigns have a number of channels to farm out cash to their allies. But as political fundraising continues to smash records, juggernauts who find themselves with more money than they can spend—think Sen. Lindsey Graham and challenger Jamie Harrison’sBrett Kappel, a campaign finance law specialist at Harmon Curran, pointed out that this might most likely prove true where a candidate has a personal stake in another race.
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