Low ads over $500,000 in campaign spending prompting DTV to update it’s complaint to the Federal Elections Committee
Defend The Vote is amending its FEC complaint against Evan Low after Low added over $500,000 in new, illegal campaign spending to boost his campaign for Congress.
Last week, DTV filed a complaint against Low over his use of non-federal funds through his state campaign committee to pay for ads for his federal candidacy. Low has since doubled down on the illegal spending with an eye-popping $540,000 expenditure from his state campaign committee to support his Congressional campaign.
“Evan Low may have been unaware he was breaking election law the first time, but now that our complaint has clearly laid out the facts, this new spending is absolutely a knowing and willful violation,” DTV Executive Director Brian Lemek said. “We will amend our complaint to the FEC to include this new illegal spending and we believe Evan Low should pull down the ads.”
Background:
- Low’s state campaign committee is funded through money that is not permitted to be spent in federal elections – he is using impermissible funds on federal campaign ads.
- The ads target voters in the congressional district for which he is running rather than his assembly district. They are not regular legislative communications, and Low has no history of running such ads.
- The ads are within 90 days of the election – in fact within two weeks of ballots being mailed out.
More on DTV’s original complaint
- Complaint linked here: Defend The Vote Files FEC Complaint Against Evan Low
- San Jose Spotlight: Silicon Valley lawmaker faces second federal elections complaint
