Senators use campaign-donor money to buy their books
WireImaget least six senators who disclosed receiving income from books in 2020—Elizabeth Warren , Tom Cotton , Joni Ernst , Tim Scott , Tammy Duckworth and Sherrod Brown —apparently used money from campaign donors to buy their own books.
The transactions all seem to be legal. Lawmakers are allowed to dip into their campaign coffers to boost book sales, so long as those sales do not increase their personal royalties. “Both the House and Senate place dollar limits on outside employment, but there is an exception for publishing contracts, which are pre-approved by the ethics committees,” said Brett Kappel, an attorney specializing in campaign finance at Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg.
Duckworth was the senate’s highest-paid wordsmith, receiving $382,000 from Hachette Book Group in 2020, more than double her $174,000 senate salary. In March, the month her memoir, for “supporter acknowledgements,” according to an FEC filing. A spokesperson for the campaign said Duckworth followed the law: “None of the purchases from the campaign to Hachette resulted in any royalties to the senator.
worth of books and “supporter acknowledgements” from her publisher, according to FEC filings. Warren earned an additional $28,000 in royalties from a book deal with Aspen Publishers. A spokesperson for Warren did not respond to requests for comment. a political-action committee founded by former Senator Jim DeMint . According to the Sacred Duty: A Soldier’s Tour of Arlington National Cemeteryfor “publications” in 2019, according to an FEC filing.
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