While Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., spoke for 25 hours on the Senate floor last week, a series of emails with contribution links and links to his campaign store was sent out, according to an ethics complaint from the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust.
FACT, a conservative nonprofit watchdog group, says that violates Senate ethics rules that prohibit tying an official Senate action with solicitations for campaign contributions.
Booker’s speech denouncing the Trump administration’s positions on deportation and other policies began on March 31 and continued into April 1. He alerted followers on X he was about to begin the speech.
Then, during and immediately after the speech, his campaign and the Democratic National Committee sent several email and text messages, which are included in the complaint. FACT references six separate campaign messages.
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