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Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) may have been celebrated by his Democratic colleagues and allies in the mainstream media for his 25-hour Senate speech last week, but it looks like that speech could have gotten him in trouble. The nonpartisan ethics watchdog group has now written to the Senate Ethics Committee as a result of the senator sending out campaign messages about the speech.
InaletteraddressedtoSens.JamesLankford(R-OK)andChrisCoons(D-DE),thechairmanandvicechairmanoftheCommittee,FACTExecutiveDirectorKendraArnoldaskedtheCommittee“toinvestigateSenatorCoryBookertodeterminewhetherheviolatedtheSenateEthicsprohibitionofdirectlylinkingofficialactiontoasolicitationforcampaigncontributions.”
AsArnold’sletterexplained,BookertooktotheSenateflooronMarch31,andshortlybeforementionedhisspeechonX,urginghisfollowerstotunein.“Bothduringandafterhisspeechhesentaseriesofemailandtextmessagesthatcampaignedandfundraisedoffhisspeech.ThesemessagesspecificallydiscussedhisspeechontheSenatefloorandrequestedthereadersignupforBooker’scampaign
