{"id":7918,"date":"2024-04-11T15:10:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/11\/head-of-commission-hearing-complaint-against-ted-cruz-once-worked-for-the-senator\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T15:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:10:42","slug":"head-of-commission-hearing-complaint-against-ted-cruz-once-worked-for-the-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/11\/head-of-commission-hearing-complaint-against-ted-cruz-once-worked-for-the-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of commission hearing complaint against Ted Cruz once worked for the senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        The chairman of the federal commission looking into an ethics complaint about U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s controversial podcast syndication deal once worked for the Texas Republican, raising concerns about his ability to be impartial in the case. Sean J. Cooksey, a Trump appointee who chairs the Federal Election Commission, served as Cruz&#8217;s deputy chief counsel in 2018, according to his LinkedIn profile. From 2019 until joining the FEC in 2020, Cooksey served as general counsel for U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, R-Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the federal commission looking into an ethics complaint about U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s controversial podcast syndication deal once worked for the Texas Republican, raising concerns about his ability to be impartial in the case. Sean J. Cooksey, a Trump appointee who chairs the Federal Election Commission, served as Cruz&#8217;s deputy chief counsel [&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\/7918"}],"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=7918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}