“Despite an attempt to smear Alek Skarlatos, who served in Afghanistan, he was never paid a dollar," said Purgason. Campaign manager Ross Purgason said the transactions were “completely legal." Skarlatos' campaign did not make him available for an interview, did not address the activities of the nonprofit and would not say whether Skarlatos currently holds a role with the group. "You can’t do that,” said Adav Noti, a former lawyer for the Federal Election Commission who now works for the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center in Washington. That includes a prohibition on candidates donating campaign cash to nonprofit groups they control, as well as a broader ban on accepting contributions from such groups, legal experts say.īut years of lax campaign finance law enforcement have fostered an environment where many candidates are willing to challenge the long-established boundaries of what's legal. It's a seat that Republicans are targeting in their quest to win back the House.Ĭampaign finance laws prohibit candidates from self-dealing and from accepting illicit money from often opaque and less regulated world of political nonprofits. Peter DeFazio in a district stretching from the college town of Corvallis to the Oregon shore. What it has nurtured, though, are Skarlatos' political ambitions, providing $65,000, records show, to his 2022 bid for a rematch with longtime Democratic Rep. The group, which Skarlatos seeded with $93,000 in leftover campaign funds, has done little since then to advance that cause. WASHINGTON (AP) - Alek Skarlatos, a hero soldier-turned-Republican congressional candidate, started a nonprofit shortly after his 2020 defeat in a western Oregon race, pledging to advocate for veterans “left high and dry” by the country "they put their lives on the line for."
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