{"id":7878,"date":"2024-04-09T09:09:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T14:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/ted-cruz-faces-complaint-to-feds-about-podcast-raising-money-for-his-reelection\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T09:09:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T14:09:45","slug":"ted-cruz-faces-complaint-to-feds-about-podcast-raising-money-for-his-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/ted-cruz-faces-complaint-to-feds-about-podcast-raising-money-for-his-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz faces complaint to feds about podcast raising money for his reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        A pair of campaign finance watchdogs have asked federal regulators to investigate a deal between U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and San Antonio-based radio group iHeartMedia that&#8217;s funneled some $630,000 in ad revenue into a fundraising entity that lists its key goal as ensuring Cruz&#8217;s reelection. Made Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission, a filing by nonprofit groups Campaign Legal Center and\u00a0End Citizens United argues the arrangement between the Republican senator and the media group violates federal election law. Cruz&#8217;s office has said he makes no money from a podcast called The Verdict With Ted Cruz that iHeartMedia syndicates to hundreds of radio stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of campaign finance watchdogs have asked federal regulators to investigate a deal between U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and San Antonio-based radio group iHeartMedia that&#8217;s funneled some $630,000 in ad revenue into a fundraising entity that lists its key goal as ensuring Cruz&#8217;s reelection. Made Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission, a filing by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}