Complaint Alleges Pro-Hogan Super PAC Broke Campaign Finance Law

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Baltimore Banner: Complaint Alleges Pro-Hogan Super PAC Broke Campaign Finance Law

By Pamela Wood

October 16, 2024

• U.S. Senate Republican candidate Larry Hogan and the super political action committee that is funding a massive ad campaign to help him are facing a complaint that they engaged in improper coordination.
  
  
• A Montgomery County voter filed a complaint with federal elections officials on Tuesday, alleging that the deep-pocketed super PAC Maryland’s Future violated the law by placing a prominent “donate” button on its webpage that goes directly to a fundraising page for Hogan’s campaign committee.
  
  
• Under federal regulations, corporations — in this case the PAC — cannot use their resources to facilitate donations to candidate committees, and likewise, candidates can’t knowingly accept money that was improperly solicited, the complaint alleges.
  
  
• The complaint was filed by Danielle Veith, a Montgomery County resident and registered Democrat, who wrote in the complaint that “this is no minor, technical violation.”
  
  
• The complaint names Maryland’s Future, the Hogan for Maryland campaign committee and Hogan as an individual.
  
  
• “Given that the fundraising activity at issue all took place on a prominent public website that clearly states it is paid for by a super PAC, it is difficult to imagine how the Hogan campaign did not know,” Veith wrote in the complaint.