Will the potential campaign finance violations from Lauren Bobert ever come to an end?
The answer to that question appears to be no.
No, they will not.
Lauren Bobert may have broken the law possibly again with a recent, um, book pitch that she
apparently used campaign finances to fund.
Now, before I get into the details, let's make one thing very clear.
Campaign finance laws here in the United States are a complete and total joke, and they are
rarely, if ever enforced.
Every now and then you'll hear a story about some Yahoo out there.
Typically, you know, based on recent history, it's gonna be a Republican lawmaker that gets
a little too greedy.
That gets a little too overt, you know, spending money on things like golf pants and golf balls.
But those stories are few and far between because it takes a real idiot to break the
laws that are rarely enforced as it is.
But if Lauren Bobert keeps on this track, I gotta tell you, she looks like she might
be the next one to go down.
So here's what happened.
In this latest event, uh, several months ago, Lauren Bobert was out there promoting her
new book through the Republican fundraising arm called Win Red.
She sends out this email telling people, Go and buy my book.
Here are the links.
Of course it sends them to outside book sellers, you know, books A million, Barnes and Noble,
Amazon, all the usuals.
And because of that, she stands to make a profit in the form of royalties.
Had she linked it to her actual website, you know, to say, Hey, go here to get the book.
She could have purchased those books, given them away at cost as a campaign, um, giveaway
type thing.
Uh, that way she doesn't make any money and you don't run into as many issues.
You could still run into some, but not as many as if you direct them to, you know, Barnes
and Noble's website.
So on that email it says at the bottom, paid for by Win Red.
But again, because Win Red is the fundraising arm, she is able to use her money to pay Win
Red to send out the thing.
So she pays Win Red to send out these fundraising emails.
Instead, they send out one telling people to go buy her new book, that if it happened
that way that it's being reported would be illegal.
Because you cannot use your campaign finance money, right?
You cannot use any campaign funds for an expense that would exist outside of the campaign.
So if an, if it's an expense that exists, even if you're not running for office, you
can't pay for that.
That's basically how they, how they do these things, right?
Mileage.
Say for example, if you drove 34,000 miles around the state of Colorado in a single year,
that's reimbursable because you wouldn't have done that if you were not running for office.
And I bring that up specifically, of course, because there is still that, uh, investigation
as far as I know, going into how in the hell Laura and Bobert drove 34,000, uh, th 34,000
miles, excuse me, around the state of Colorado for one single campaign in, in one district.
Granted, it's a big district, you know, you got lots of miles to cover. 34,000 is stretching
it because that's how long it would, or how many miles it is, one and a half times around
the circumference of the earth.
I seriously doubt Lauren Bobert traveled that far, but she got reimbursed for that mileage.
And also, it's so ironic because the mileage she got it reimbursed for happened to be the
same amount of money that she owed for a lie against her restaurant.
Wow, what a coincidence, right?
, how fortuitous ever.
And immediately after she got that reimbursement, she was able to pay off that lie too.
So weird, right?
Restaurant, of course, is now closed.
Laura and Bobert might be under another criminal investigation for potentially abusing her
campaign finance funds.
And her book didn't even sell that well to begin with.
So, so , that would be the icing on the cake, right?
You're using campaign funds to illegally promote your book, and you still can't get people
to buy your book.
You gonna go to jail for that, right?
Is that gonna be the thing that takes you down promoting a book that nobody wanted in
the first place?
Because God, I would love to see that happen, that folks would be poetic justice.
You ruin your entire career and it doesn't even help you sell any books.
As it stands right now, there's not yet a formal investigation into this activity, but
there are calls for an investigation.
Red flags have been raised, and when the investigation happens, or if it happens, then we'll finally
get to the bottom of this.
But as I said, it's very rare for the FEC to actually do anything about anything.
So this may be one of those times where Lauren Bever gets off with either a slap on the wrist
or gets off with no penalty at.