Frequently referred to as the Senate’s most hated member, podcaster Ted Cruz (R-Quintana Roo) continues to mount up the questionable contributions to his Super PAC, called the Truth & Courage PAC, from the distributor of his podcast which claims it doesn’t pay Cruz for his podcast, the Daily Beast reports.
This is wrong on a lot of levels. First, candidates like podcaster Td Cruz cannot directly solicit funds for their Super PACs–they’re supposed to act independently–so why podcaster Ted Cruz’s podcast distributor, iHeartMedia, gave more than $150,000 to podcaster Ted Cruz’s Truth & Courage PAC in May, adding to the $786,000 the distributor paid the podcaster in salary contributed to the politician’s PAC.
The bigger problem for Cruz is that Senators are limited to earning $30,000 per year in outside income from “second jobs;” no one wants Senators moonlighting. Unreported outside income or trying to sneak around Senate rules could earn Cruz another Ethics Committee investigation.