{"id":8297,"date":"2024-06-03T13:09:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/brandon-ak-guy-herreras-campaign-under-fec-scrutiny-for-50000-loan\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T13:09:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:09:54","slug":"brandon-ak-guy-herreras-campaign-under-fec-scrutiny-for-50000-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/brandon-ak-guy-herreras-campaign-under-fec-scrutiny-for-50000-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon &#8216;AK Guy&#8217; Herrera&#8217;s campaign under FEC scrutiny for $50,000 loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         When congressional candidate Brandon Herrera last week posted on social media that he was &#8220;not done fighting&#8221; after his narrow loss to incumbent U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzalez, a federal campaign-finance inquiry probably wasn&#8217;t what he had in mind. On Sunday, the Federal Election Commission sent four letters to Herrera campaign treasurer Thomas Datwyler \u2014 a longtime GOP political operative with reported ties to expelled\u00a0New York Congressman George Santos \u2014\u00a0asking for more information on $50,000 Herrera reportedly loaned his own campaign in December. Here may be the issue that prompted questions from the FEC:\u00a0Herrera \u2014 a YouTube influencer who posts gun reviews on his channel \u2014 earned a $84,000 annual salary in 2022, according to a financial disclosure report he filed in September with the U.S. House.\u00a0Unless Herrera received a substantial boost in 2023 personal income or has a deep reservoir of personal savings, the filing raises questions about his ability to fund a loan of that size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When congressional candidate Brandon Herrera last week posted on social media that he was &#8220;not done fighting&#8221; after his narrow loss to incumbent U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzalez, a federal campaign-finance inquiry probably wasn&#8217;t what he had in mind. On Sunday, the Federal Election Commission sent four letters to Herrera campaign treasurer Thomas Datwyler \u2014 a [&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\/8297"}],"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=8297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}