Incoming GOP lawmaker says he may have violated campaign finance law

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Hill

Rep.-elect Ross Spano (R-Fla.) is acknowledging that he may have violated campaign finance law in his bid to represent Florida's 15th Congressional District.

The Tampa Bay Times reported that Spano acknowledged potentially violating the law after releasing a Federal Elections Commission (FEC) filing on Saturday. In the filing, Spano said that he borrowed $180,000 from two friends from June to October of this year.

He lended $167,000 in roughly the same time period to his campaign, The Times reported.

Spano said the loans came from his "personal funds" upon making the payments.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/419377-incoming-gop-lawmaker-says-he-may-have-violated-campaign-finance-law

[TexasBushwhacker]

1. Yup n/t

[itsrobert]

2. "lended"????

WTH?

[Tess49]

3. I was staring at that. WTH, indeed? n/t

[progressoid]

4. The Hill

Don't expect excellence.

[hatrack]

12. Don't even expect competence . . .

Or literacy, for that matter.

[lagomorph777]

16. Exactly.

[Ramsey Barner]

9. It's the former Pagan holiday that Christianity co-opted to become Lent.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. Ha! (In their defense, Christians only **borrowed** it)

[Javaman]

15. he lended the money to the campaign after he putted it in his pocket. LOL makes sense to me! LOLOL n

[lagomorph777]

17. It maked cents two me to!

[UpInArms]

20. Truly bad grammar

🤦🏽?♀️

[SergeStorms]

5. I swear, cheating and lying...

are in all republican's DNA. They must have been getting close to reporting this if he admitted to it. No republican confesses to anything unless someone is about to lower the boom on them, and sometimes not even then.

[olddad56]

6. he is allowed to cheat and lie, he is a republican. I would be shocked if he didn't cheat and lie.

[joshdawg]

7. Yep.

Those are the only things republicans can do.......cheat and lie.

[ananda]

8. It's their modus operandi

Reep Cheat Liar are all synonyms.

[NCjack]

11. He is unworthy. The Congress should expel him now. nt

[peekaloo]

13. He was virtually invisible during his "campaign".

at least tee vee wise.

That R next to his name guarantees a win in his very red district. Not to mention a woman was running against him.

This story surfaced a couple of days before the election and local media yawned.

[PeeJ52]

14. There were tons of anti-Carlson Internet ads though...

I remember being amazed at seeing how many popped up on my usual lefty sites. They were doing big time OPPO buys.

[jeffreyi]

18. Oopsie.

[FakeNoose]

19. If I'm reading this correctly

... he took personal loans from 2 friends that amounted to $180,000. But then he turned around and gave 93% of that money to his campaign and called it "self-funding." So the loans from his friends were actually campaign contributions and should have been reported as such. Any campaign contribution over $2,500 must be recorded by law.

I'd say he got caught.