Kid Rock Responds to Watchdog Group's Complaint Against His Senate Run: 'Go F--- Yourselves'
Kid Rock presents an award onstage at the 2017 CMT Music Awards at the Music City Center on June 7, 2017 in Nashville, Tenn.
Watchdog group Common Cause has filed a complaint against Kid Rock's future Senate run with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice.
In
the complaint, the group urges attorney general Jeff Sessions and
deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein to investigate whether Kid Rock
has violated federal election laws by acting as a Senate candidate --
tweeting about it and launching kidrockforsenate.com
-- without registering his candidacy. Common Cause further states he
has not complied with contribution restrictions or publicly disclosed
contributions to his campaign.
Kid Rock's label, Warner Bros.
Records, is named as well: Common Cause alleges the company has also
violated federal law and commission regulations by offering 'Kid Rock
for Senate' merchandise for sale on its website.
"Given the activities we’ve documented in the complaint, he can’t
reasonably claim to be merely testing the waters of candidacy and thus
exempt from candidate filing requirements," Common Cause vice president
for policy and litigation Paul S. Ryan said.
"He is a candidate and is obligated to abide by all the rules and make
the same disclosures required of everyone else running for federal
office.”
Kid Rock hit back with a brief, to-the-point response.
"I
am starting to see reports from the misinformed press and the fake news
on how I am in violation of breaking campaign law," Kid Rock wrote on his website Friday (Sept. 1). "#1 I have still not officially announced my candidacy. #2 See #1 and go fuck yourselves."
Read Common Cause's complaint in full here.
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