The Democratic National Committee has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging illegal coordination between the campaign and an allied Super PAC.
The complaint claims that the effort by the Super PAC to garner the requisite number of signatures for RFK’s name to appear on the state ballot violated federal law by cooperating too closely with the campaign.
“Put simply, to qualify for the ballot under state law, American Values 2024 must coordinate its activity with Mr. Kennedy and his campaign in a way that violates federal campaign finance laws,” attorneys for the Democratic National Committee wrote in a complaint to the FEC.
DNC legal counsel Bob Lenhard argued that “state law presumes and in some cases requests that the candidate committee or candidate” participate in the ballot signature effort making the spending by the Kennedy-aligned Super PAC an in-kind contribution and, thus, illegal.
“The DNC wants to deny millions of people their basic constitutional voting rights in a relentless onslaught against democracy,” Tony Lyons, the founder of American Values, said in a statement responding to the complaint. “The FEC…
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