Fundraising appeals on behalf of Senator Jeanne Shaheen has netted charges of ethical misconduct for Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, with the Bay State’s Republican Party filing a complaint against the liberal firebrand’s chief of staff.
“Today, the Massachusetts Republican Party filed a formal complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee against Elizabeth Warren’s Chief of Staff Mindy Myers seeking an immediate investigation into potentially illegal partisan fundraising email sent by Mindy Myers while acting in her capacity as a Senate employee,” read a press release detailing the complaint. “On Friday, September 27, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Mindy Myers sent a fundraising solicitation along with a message from U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen Senate Campaign to a political distribution list.”
At question is a fundraising appeal, signed by Myers, attempting to tie former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown to the Tea Party and Karl Rove as part of an end of the quarter fundraising push for Shaheen.
Warren bested the former senator in last year’s election, who’s now reportedly mulling a New Hampshire challenge to Shaheen in next year’s midterm.
That complaint was filed Monday, and was followed by an additional request Wednesday that the Senate Ethics Committee produce evidence Myers “has been formally documented as a Political Fund Designee and has filed public financial disclosure statements as required under Federal Rules.”
“Senator Warren frequently invokes transparency in government as central tenet of her governing philosophy,” stated MassGOP Exec Director Rob Cunningham. “All we are asking is that she holds her office to those same standards of transparency she demands from others.”