Kid Rock Fires
Back after Complaint of Possible Campaign Violations: ‘Go F**k Yourselves’
by Jerome Hudson 1 Sep 2017
Kid Rock fired
back at the media and left-leaning watchdog group Common
Cause on Friday over accusations that he is violating federal
election law by failing to register as a candidate for the U.S. Senate and
complying with campaign contributions rules.
“I am starting to see reports from the misinformed press
and the fake news on how I am in violation of breaking campaign law,” the
veteran rocker wrote
in a blog post on his website.
“#1. I have still not officially announced my
candidacy,” he wrote,
adding: “#2 See #1 and go f*ck yourselves.”
Common Cause filed a complaint with the Federal
Election Commission and U.S. Department
of Justice, accusing Rock — real name Robert Ritchie — of selling
political merchandise and accepting financial contributions for an
election campaign, while not registering his candidacy.
“Regardless of whether Kid Rock says he’s only exploring
candidacy, he’s selling ‘Kid Rock for Senate’ merchandise and is a candidate
under the law. This is campaign finance law 101,” said
Paul S. Ryan, Common Cause’s vice president for policy and litigation.
“Given the activities we’ve documented in the complaint,
he can’t reasonably claim to be merely testing the waters of candidacy and thus
exempt from candidate filing requirements,” Ryan said. “He is a candidate and
is obligated to abide by all the rules and make the same disclosures required
of everyone else running for federal office.”
Rock had been reportedly floated
as a possible Senate candidate in Michigan during the state’s Republican Party
convention in February. In July, he announced the
launch of a campaign website: kidrockforsenate.com.
Days later, the 46-year-old appeared to confirm his
Senate candidacy, saying
he planned to release new music during his campaign, similar to how politicians
release books during their own campaigns.
Early polling conducted in July found
the Romeo, Michigan-born musician with a slight edge over incumbent Sen. Debbie
Stabenow (D-MI), and with a double-digit lead over his closest Republican
rivals.
After blasting “fake news” in his blog post Friday,
Rock wished his fans a happy Labor Day weekend.
“Everyone else, Have a great Labor Day (I will be
spending mine WORKING in one of the greatest cities in America – Grand Rapids,
Michigan!!) Rock on,” he wrote.
Let’s connect the dots:
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Robert Lenhard
was a chairman for the Federal Election
Commission (FEC), and is a partner at Covington
& Burling LLP.
Note: Eric H. Holder Jr.
is a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, was a board member for the American
Constitution Society, and an attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American
Constitution Society.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Common Cause, the Committee
for Economic Development, the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and the Urban Institute (think tank).
Walter E.
Dellinger III is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, and was an acting solicitor general
for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Janet
Reno was a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, and an attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Robert Raben was
a director at the American Constitution
Society, and an assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Christopher
Edley Jr. is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, and was a governing board member for
the Common Cause.
Alice M. Rivlin
is a governing board member for the Common
Cause, a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Trevor Potter was
a fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a chairman for the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Susan E. Tifft was
a press secretary for the Federal
Election Commission (FEC), and a public affairs director for the Urban Institute (think tank).
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