Texas Gov. Abbott’s camp howls over Democrat O’Rourke’s missteps on campaign finance reporting

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Texas Gov. Abbott pushes ethics complaint against Democrat O’Rourke over campaign finance report

While a Beto O’Rourke spokesman called the Republican incumbent’s charges “political games,” the Abbott campaign said the money-reporting errors reflect, at best, incompetence.

“O’Rourke’s unwillingness to release accurate campaign finance reports is shameful,” Abbott spokesman Mark Miner said Friday. “Either they’re incompetent or they’re lying — neither of those good qualities in a candidate for governor.” Traditionally, small contributions under a certain amount in state races don’t have to be reported to the commission except as a subtotal of such small gifts. Over time, the threshold for detailed reporting has increased, from contributions of more than $50 to those exceeding $90. Since 2019, though, the only small contributions exempt from reporting of the name and address of the donor and the date of the contribution are those made with either cash or check.Democrat Beto O’Rourke raised $7.

It noted that through Powered by People, the group O’Rourke created to register Texans to vote and help get out the vote for Democrats, and End Citizens United, a national group trying to get big money out of politics, O’Rourke has received more than $1.7 million of in-kind contributions such as email lists, website domains, digital ads and text messaging. But he used them to build both his contributions and expenditures totals, which is a violation, Pate said.

 

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Vote to get Texas governor Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz out of office.

Why isn’t the DMN “howling”? Shouldn’t they be questioning it too, along with doing the same for Abbott?

GreedyGreg was bootlicking billionaire Californians the other day. Selling Texas up the river. He has no ground to accuse anyone of ethics violations.

d00d — you’re being ACTIVELY PRIMARIED AS AN INCUMBENT. and you’re willing to take L’s like this? 😂😂😂

What do you have to say about this GregAbbott_TX I'm sure you see no ethical issues here do you?

Shows you, yet again, where Republican priorities are. Instead of addressing the issues and making progress, they waste time attacking Democrats, running in place while their Democrat counterparts are focused on doing good things for the people.

GovAbbott is enamored with a thrice married former gameshow host who laundered cash for the mob through his failed casinos, stole from his own charity, paid hush money to pornstars, ran a scam university, extorted Ukraine and incited a coup attempt based on lies when he lost.

'howls' Someone's bias is showing.

I smell fear

GovAbbott TXlege Texans are howling over your fascist, anti-constitution, anti-democratic. voter suppression, gerrymandering cheating & corrupt politics. We stand with BetoORourke

'Missteps' DMN is a trash paper. Belo is a trash Corp. Report it correctly. Robert Francis O'Rourke is committing fraud with his campaign finance report.

Since WHEN Republicans care about ethics....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Who cares

Has Ken Paxton even filed yet?

Abbott will do every dirty trick he can think of in this election.

Abbott is nervous

Beto for Texas Governor 2022.

What did he say about corrupt KenPaxtonTX and his LACK of reporting?

I can't wait to vote for Beto, even though I am STILL waiting to get my mail-in ballot after applying with both methods of ID.

Dallas Morning News - Good morning. Thank you for keep on eyes over up coming election . Governor Abbott is been two times Texas Governor . So, he knows ! What's he is doing .

It’s so much fun to see Abbott sweat. Almost as much fun as watching him freeze, as I did for many days last winter, due to our broken power grid he didn’t fix.

You mean the finance report that didn’t change a single bit when corrected? Fixing incorrect entires into the wrong accounting column is a helluvah lot different than lying through your teeth as our Governor seems to be addicted to doing

Abbott trying to roll over anything and anyone ....

BetoForGovernor

Greg Abbott's getting nervous

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