Senator uses PAC funds for Personal Expenses

Gallego spent PAC money on Disney World, Miami birthday bash, and Super Bowl tickets

Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego tapped his leadership PAC and a joint campaign account to bankroll family trips to Disney World, a luxury Miami Beach hotel for his wife's birthday, a jaunt to St. Barts, and Super Bowl tickets, all while positioning himself as a champion of working families struggling with the cost of living.

The spending, first reported by Politico and detailed by the Daily Caller News Foundation, draws from FEC records showing that Gallego's JUNTOS PAC raised nearly $1.5 million as of May 31, 2026. The senator also used PAC funds for $18,000 in child care reimbursements since 2019, including a $400 payment to his wife Sydney Gallego's mother for babysitting.

Gallego's response was to shrug. In a statement attributed to Politico, the senator said:

"This is not breaking news. With the rising costs of child care and the burden it has on the budgets of American families, Democrats and Republicans in Congress and the White House alike regularly travel with their wives and children, as is permitted by the FEC."

Permitted by the FEC, perhaps. But the details paint a picture that most donors, and most Arizona voters, might find hard to square with a populist brand.

Gallego's spending is technically legal under current FEC rules, and that is part of the problem. Campaign funds cannot be used for "personal use", defined as activities irrespective of the campaign. But leadership PACs like JUNTOS PAC are not bound by that restriction. Lawmakers can use leadership PAC money for a broad range of activities as long as there is some fundraising function attached.

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Graham Platner pays influencers to promote him

Graham Platner's 'grassroots' Maine Senate campaign paid tens of thousands to firm that pays influencers to promote him

Democrat Graham Platner has built his Maine Senate campaign on the promise of grassroots authenticity, no corporate PACs, just ordinary people powering a populist challenge to Republican incumbent Susan Collins.

But his own campaign finance disclosures tell a different story. Since September, Platner has paid at least $36,437.94 to a Democratic consulting firm that maintains a stable of social media influencers who promote candidates and causes for pay, and at least one of those influencers has repeatedly urged his audience to donate to Platner without disclosing any financial connection.

The Washington Free Beacon reviewed Platner's FEC spending records and found the payments went to Be a Good Influence LLC, a Louisville, Kentucky-based firm commonly known as Good Influence. The company describes itself as "the trusted partner for measurable creator-led campaigns" and says it "bundles elite news and cause-focused online creators together to create a network effect" for its clients.

The gap between Platner's public image and his spending habits is the kind of thing voters in a purple state like Maine deserve to know about, and the kind of thing mainstream outlets have so far failed to report.

Platner built his campaign on the claim that he answers to ordinary people, not moneyed interests. His own FEC filings show he's paying a professional operation to manufacture the appearance of organic enthusiasm. If that's grassroots, the word has lost all meaning.

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Be A Good Influence LLC is a political consulting firm that recruits and pays social media influencers to promote Democratic Party candidates and left-leaning causes to their audiences.

In early 2024, Josh Cook joined the company, Good Influence LLC, as its president. For A long-time Democratic Party digital strategist, Cook had been a digital strategist for President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.

AOC charges personal psychiatric expenses to her campaign

AOC FEC Complaint Targets $18725 in Payments to Ketamine Psychiatrist

The National Legal and Policy Center filed a joint complaint on March 27, 2026 with the Federal Election Commission and the Office of Congressional Conduct.

The complaint details three payments AOC's campaign made in 2025 to Dr. Brian W. Boyle, a Boston-based psychiatrist: $11,550 on March 10, $2,800 on May 15, and $4,375 on October 1 – totaling $18,725. Every payment was reported to the FEC as "leadership training and consulting."

There is one problem. Dr. Boyle does not offer leadership training or consulting. He is an interventional psychiatrist whose work focuses on treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, and anxiety, largely through ketamine-based methods. He holds a position as chief psychiatric officer at Stella, a chain of mental health clinics built around experimental therapies favored by Hollywood and Wall Street clientele.

"While she describes these expenses as 'leadership training,' Dr. Boyle has no expertise in that area, unlike several Democratic campaign consultants," NLPC counsel Paul Kamenar told the New York Post. "This looks like yet another example of misuse of campaign contributions."

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Court rules that Hillary's affiliated super PAC violated federal election law in 2016

Court Just Nailed Hillary for FEC Violation 45x Bigger Than Trump’s $130k So-Called Violation

The Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign and an affiliated super PAC violated federal election law in spending that totaled close to $6 million.

The amount in question is more than 45 times the $130,000 a Manhattan court convicted former President Donald Trump of misreporting in business records during the same 2016 campaign.

It should be noted that the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department looked at the payments Trump made through his personal attorney at the time, Michael Cohen, to adult film star Stormy Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement and declined to prosecute him.

But Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg chose to bring the case under New York law, bootstrapping the alleged FEC violation as an underlying crime to the state business record violations.

Regarding Hillary, Correct the Record committed FEC “business record” violations, if you will, by failing to properly account for money spent to help the Clinton campaign.

“The Clinton campaign hired Perkins Coie, which then hired Fusion GPS, a research and intelligence firm, to conduct opposition research on Republican candidate Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. But on FEC forms, the Clinton campaign classified the spending as legal services,” the AP said.

That’s interesting, because that’s exactly the violation Bragg said the Trump Organization committed in relation to paying Cohen.

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Ted Cruz Wins Huge Court Decision – This Ruling Puts the Texas Senator in the Clear for Good

Ted Cruz Wins Huge Court Decision

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is one lawyer by trade that leftists might want to leave alone when it comes to challenges in court. Cruz knows the law well and is readily prepared to defend himself and his political career against attacks against his conservative opinions.

Cruz is a veteran politician, proven attorney, and an outspoken critic of liberal ideals. He is also an author who challenges any ideas he feels go against the Constitution and traditional American values. Promotions for his recent book landed him on the opposite side of leftist activists who accused him of breaking campaign ethics laws.

What the left-wing activists didn’t expect was a decision from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that shut down their claims with a unanimous decision. Cruz could have been on the hook for serious penalties until the truth was revealed.

The book did sell, so what happened to money earned from book sales? The answer was simple and straightforward for the FEC. Cruz provided an affidavit showing that he directed his publisher to donate the book’s royalties to charity and that his family did not benefit financially from the book.

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Federal campaign watchdog fines DNC, Clinton campaign over dossier spending disclosure

Hillary Clinton, DNC fined by FEC over Trump-Russia collusion hoax

Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee have been fined by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for lying about funding the false Russian “dossier” that was used against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in the weeks leading up to his win.

In a memo on Tuesday to Coolidge Reagan Foundation (CRF) — which initially filed an FEC complaint three years ago — the FEC said it concluded that Clinton and the DNC violated expenditure reporting rules regarding payments to the research group Fusion GPS.

Clinton was fined $8,000 and the DNC was fined $105,000. The Washington Examiner was first to report the memo on Wednesday.

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Not enough votes at FEC to Convict Trump

FEC Closes Case on Alleged Trump Hush Money Payments

The Federal Election Commission has closed its inquiry into possible campaign violations related to payments made to an adult film star who claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Donald Trump, meaning the former president and his campaign won't face any penalties.

Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to three years in prison for lying to Congress, tax evasion and other charges related to the payment.

Stormy Daniels back in 2018 denied she had an affair with Trump--said "it never happened."

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68 percent ballot error rate - Dominion

Dominion audit: Ballot Error Rate Was At Least 85,000 Times Higher Than FEC Allows

A Michigan judge ordered the release Monday of an independent forensic audit report of the Dominion Voting Systems machines used in Antrim County, which flipped from a win for Democrat Joe Biden to President Donald Trump after a glitch was discovered and corrected.

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Mad Max - A Shady Lady

Maxine Water caught using campaign funds to pay family debts

Maxine Waters has woven a tangled web of shady financial dealings, and it’s finally catching up with her. Waters has refused to address the accusations, but the FEC complaints are piling up.

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Criminal investigation justified?

Democratic Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez and her top aide are no longer board members of the outside PAC credited with orchestrating her political rise, according to a corporate document filed Friday to a Washington, D.C., agency.

If the FEC finds that her campaign and the PAC were operating in affiliation, it could result in “massive reporting violations” or potentially even jail time for Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti, former FEC Commissioner Brad Smith previously told TheDCNF."

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Read the Ethics Complaint filed by The National League and Policy Center.

Now maybe AOC will shut her mouth

She could be in very serious trouble, accused of covering up her affiliation and majority control of Justice Democrats PAC that she never declared to the FEC, a PAC that raised more than $1.8 million during her primary.

Republican election attorney Charlie Spies told TheDCNF: “It looks like the campaign and PAC are under common control and the PAC was funding campaign staff and activities as an alter-ego of the campaign committee, which would be a blatant abuse of the PAC rules.” It would be an abuse of campaign laws if this PAC was supporting her campaign.

Read about AOC and her possible jail time up to five years. This link shows all the details. We have already read that she funneled thousands of dollars to her boyfriend. I thought she believed that only capitalists were unscrupulous.

Ocasio-Cortez hit with FEC Complaint

Ocasio-Cortez charged with funneling  Thousands in Campaign Money to Her Boyfriend

I read about this last week. Now the sh*t has hit the fan and a formal complaint has been filed against Ocasio-Cortez, the new congresswoman from New York who has learned  early how to navigate the system.  She learned the "ropes" before she was even elected.

A Federal Election Commission complaint has been filed "accusing her of funneling thousands from her campaign fund to her boyfriend through a political action committee."

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Citizens's Indictment of Hillary Clinton

Citizen's Indictment

of Hillary Clinton

This Citizen's Indictment of Hillary Clinton hereby acknowledges the MASSIVE, nationwide, multi-million dollar conspiracy between the DNC and Hillary Clinton to entirely bypass Federal Election Laws by effectively laundering nearly all contributions received by Hillary Clinton's numerous fundraising organizations.

Based on publicly available FEC records, repeatedly throughout the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton's fundraising organizations would receive large donations from "super donors", and would transfer said donations straight to the DNC, effectively negating FEC restrictions on donation amounts.

Because each donation received through Hillary Clinton's fundraising organizations were earmarked to be IMMEDIATELY transferred to the DNC, each contribution qualifies as a contribution from the original source to the DNC itself - thereby causing most such transactions to GROSSLY exceed federal limits of $33,400 per person.

WHEREFORE, Hillary Clinton and Respondents violated 52 U.S.C. § 30116(a)(8) and 11 C.F.R. § 110.6

WHEREFORE, Respondent DNC violated 52 U.S.C. § 30116 by making, and Respondent HFA (Hillary for America) violated 52 U.S.C. § 30116 by receiving, contributions in excess of federal limits from each other.

WHEREFORE, the Respondent state state party political committees violated 52 U.S.C. § 30104 by making inaccurate and/or incomplete statutorily required reports.

THEREBY, I the undersigned issue this Citizen's Indictment of Hillary Clinton and request the Federal Election Commission commence enforcement proceedings against Hillary Clinton and Respondents.

Lake Avenue Closure at FEC tracks

CLOSURE: LAKE AVENUE

is going to be closed to vehicular traffic due to Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway Grade Crossing Rehabilitation during the following days: Saturday, October 28, 2017 at 7:00 AM to Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 6:00 AM

DNC Broke!

DNC BROKE: Finished Month $3.3 Million in Debt – Imagine What They’d Do For The Country

Under the leadership of former Obama official Tom Perez, a new FEC report reveals the DNC finished the month of June $3.3 million in debt.

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Over 900 campaign contributions to Bernie Sanders under scrutiny with the FEC

Click here for Bernie Sanders' possible excessive and impermissible campaign contributions according to the Federal Elections Commission.

The AAF wants interest in our License Agreements

We couldn't stop it although it wasn't from a lack of trying.

This is just another thing that I feel should NOT be on the Consent Agenda coming before the commission tonight as I would have liked to have heard some discussion on this.

The FEC tracks used to be about passenger trains like Tri-Rail. Now it will be about High Speed Rail and Freight. But worse than that, all Aboard Florida has held us up to hostage--we had no choice in this matter that All Aboard is coming through our city and we can't afford the necessary and mandatory crossing guard safety replacements estimated to be around $5.6 million so they want us to give them something of value--an interest in our FEC License Agreements and they will pay for the crossing guard replacements.

It really "sucks" to be a poor city and in this instance, the crossing guards, etc. must be replaced at a tremendous cost to the city. We got stuck with All Aboard Florida whether we wanted it or not. Just the simple fact that 32 additional trains will come barreling through our city on the FEC tracks is bad enough and then factor in the return trips. AAF will cause longer commutes to work and could affect emergency response times.  The projected number of trains is up to 50 freight and passenger trains per day! Have you ever seen 6th Avenue South at rush hour now?

AAF has agreed to fund 100% of these improvements (identified as “initial development costs” in the agreement) for the City, in return for being named as a third-party beneficiary to the existing license agreements between the City and FEC. AAF railway line is expected to increase the ongoing maintenance costs for each crossing by approximately 10% according to FEC. officials. We get to maintain it all.

Our City Attorney requested that FEC consider updating the license agreements since some of the agreements are quite old and in need of revisions. FEC has refused to make any changes to the existing license agreements.

In order for the City to have AAF fund 100% of the “initial development costs,” the City must agree to name AAF as a third party beneficiary to the existing licenses without any changes. Once again, we are being asked to "give in" and "give it away" in order for a train company that we didn't want in the first place, other than the Trio commission, can roar through our city and totally cause havoc with our quality of life.