Cruz PACs Paid Talk Radio Insider $8 Million Dollars Was Money Illegally Used To Buy Talk Host Endorsements?
Apr 14, 2016 18:41:23 #
Cruz PACs Paid Talk Radio Insider $8 Million Dollars Was Money Illegally Used To Buy Talk Host Endorsements?
(Reality Check 753) Reality Check has already shown how Neutral Conservative News Websites Breitbart and The Daily Wire are actually fronts for the Ted Cruz Campaign. In our article The $25 Million Dollar Trump Take Down we clearly show that the owners of those sites donated over $25 Million Dollars to the Cruz Campaign and then use their websites to promote him. But is Talk Radio also on the take? Reality Check dug into Cruz FEC Filings and discovered the Cruz PACs paid a Talk Radio Insider over $8 Million Dollars, and the endorsements of Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and others quickly came in.
The FCC regulates the nations TV and Radio Stations because the signals they use are owned by the public. This is why you cannot use certain words on the radio, stations must have licenses, keep a public records file and make it available, etc.
One FCC rule is 47 U.S. Code § 317 or the Payola Rule. Simply put, Radio/TV Stations and their employees are not allowed to take money to put content in their programming, mention items, talk about candidates, etc. unless that sponsorship is disclosed.
In other words, if a Talk Show host like Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt or others was paid money by a campaign to talk glowingly, defend or endorse a candidate, and not disclose that they were paid on-air to the audience, or the radio stations they are broadcast on, theyd be in violation of the law. The station could lose its license and the host could be jailed and fined.
Politico published an article in December called, Talk Radio Rallies Around Ted Cruz highlighting Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and Erick Erickson, amongst others as hosts defending Cruz and bashing Donald Trump (to Cruzs benefit). If these hosts are doing it on their own, with no payment, its perfectly legal. However, if money is flowing to them, and they are not disclosing it, they are violating Federal Law.
Cruz won a convincing primary in Wisconsin and as Mark Graul, a Wisconsin based GOP Strategist pointed out:
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The question is, are these talk show hosts becoming Pro-Cruz on their own volition? Or are they being paid big money to sway the e******n in Cruzs favor?
A look at Ted Cruz PAC filings (Keep The Promise I & Keep The Promise PAC) turns up expenses totaling $8,467,466.00 to a company out of Plano Texas called Rigel Strategies LLC. Below is a screenshot of just a small sample of the payments Keep The Promise I has paid to Rigel Strategies, LLC....
(Reality Check 753) Reality Check has already shown how Neutral Conservative News Websites Breitbart and The Daily Wire are actually fronts for the Ted Cruz Campaign. In our article The $25 Million Dollar Trump Take Down we clearly show that the owners of those sites donated over $25 Million Dollars to the Cruz Campaign and then use their websites to promote him. But is Talk Radio also on the take? Reality Check dug into Cruz FEC Filings and discovered the Cruz PACs paid a Talk Radio Insider over $8 Million Dollars, and the endorsements of Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and others quickly came in.
The FCC regulates the nations TV and Radio Stations because the signals they use are owned by the public. This is why you cannot use certain words on the radio, stations must have licenses, keep a public records file and make it available, etc.
One FCC rule is 47 U.S. Code § 317 or the Payola Rule. Simply put, Radio/TV Stations and their employees are not allowed to take money to put content in their programming, mention items, talk about candidates, etc. unless that sponsorship is disclosed.
In other words, if a Talk Show host like Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt or others was paid money by a campaign to talk glowingly, defend or endorse a candidate, and not disclose that they were paid on-air to the audience, or the radio stations they are broadcast on, theyd be in violation of the law. The station could lose its license and the host could be jailed and fined.
Politico published an article in December called, Talk Radio Rallies Around Ted Cruz highlighting Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and Erick Erickson, amongst others as hosts defending Cruz and bashing Donald Trump (to Cruzs benefit). If these hosts are doing it on their own, with no payment, its perfectly legal. However, if money is flowing to them, and they are not disclosing it, they are violating Federal Law.
Cruz won a convincing primary in Wisconsin and as Mark Graul, a Wisconsin based GOP Strategist pointed out:
Screen Shot 2016-04-13 at 11.43.16 AM
The question is, are these talk show hosts becoming Pro-Cruz on their own volition? Or are they being paid big money to sway the e******n in Cruzs favor?
A look at Ted Cruz PAC filings (Keep The Promise I & Keep The Promise PAC) turns up expenses totaling $8,467,466.00 to a company out of Plano Texas called Rigel Strategies LLC. Below is a screenshot of just a small sample of the payments Keep The Promise I has paid to Rigel Strategies, LLC....
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