The filing alleges Cruz may have violated a federal ban on lawmakers taking gifts from lobbyists by accepting free production and marketing for his podcast. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX Texas TedCruz iHeartRadio iHeartMedia podcasts Republicans
podcast on 850 radio stations is an"unprecedented national syndication agreement for a sitting member of Congress."
Cruz's pact with the nation's largest radio-station holding company also would expand the number of episodes for his podcast from one to three weekly and provide him with a new co-host.bragged to right-wing media platform the Daily Caller that Cruz's new partner would “fund production, dump a whole bunch of money into marketing” and “make this show sustainable . . . for the next years.”
iHeart offered up those services to Cruz even though it's been registered as a lobbyist since 2003, the Campaign Legal Center said in its filing. In 2021, the radio company spent $4.6 million on lobbying efforts. So far this year, it's reported $3.4 million in lobbying expenditures, according to the complaint.
What's more, the watchdog group alleges that iHeart’s lobbying efforts have targeted the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, on which Cruz sits. In federal filings the, company reported lobbying on at least two bills now before the committee.
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