We have two separate entities we’re dealing with here. We have Ted Cruz the person. He is the guy you know, the one that heads off to Cancun in the middle of disasters, leaves the dog at home, is the most hated member of Congress, and not just by dogs, that guy. You know him, he’s a person, even if it seems to be open for debate at times.

Then there is the Ted Cruz Campaign. From the law’s perspective, these are two separate “people,” much like LLC and people or corporations and people. The law says that Ted the candidate must collect money for his campaign, the law also says that Ted doesn’t get to keep that money. So what to do?

Have the campaign buy his books! As gifts! For donations! It is clearly the new thing and we hope it will be banned soon enough or one could come up with a campaign “Jason for President,” and beg every reader to donate money to the campaign. In exchange, Jason’s campaign will purchase two pages of “Deep Thoughts, by Jason Miciak” for $39.99 (a bargain because these are good thoughts).

Ted isn’t doing anything different, except he thinks his thoughts are deeper and much longer. From Yahoo News:

Senator Ted Cruz may have used up $153,000 in campaign funds when he was running for senator last year to buy his own book, reported Forbes reporter Zach Everson on Monday. 

In a 2020 Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing, Cruz’s campaign spent $153,000 at retailer Books-a-Million. It is not clear what books were purchased – the filing simply listed the purchase as “books.” 

But the money was spent in the two months following the release of his book “One Vote Away: How A Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History” on September 29, 2020. 

Wow, a book that doesn’t even include a lot of deep thoughts other than the fact that it was critical to get Brett Kavanaugh on the bench. (Before Amy Coney-Barrett) because so many huge issues are decided by one vote on the SCOTUS. Who knew? Ted knew… that he could shift over six figures if he came up with something.

That is not very deep, Ted, not the book, nor the plan to shift the money over.

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