Rep. Buddy Carter | Congressman Buddy Carter/Facebook
Rep. Buddy Carter | Congressman Buddy Carter/Facebook
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) recently dismissed a complaint accusing Georgia State Rep. Buddy Carter of violating campaign finance laws.
According to Fox 5 Atlanta, Georgia Democratic lawmakers filed the complaint last year after Carter launched a statewide ad condemning Major League Baseball for moving its All-Star Game out of metro Atlanta in response to new Georgia voting laws. The complaint accused Carter of using the ad to promote himself as a Senate candidate which would be illegal since he never filed paperwork to declare his candidacy for the Senate.
FEC disagreed however and rejected the complaint saying, "The advertisement by Carter references Democrats and President Trump and ran in areas outside of Carter’s congressional district, but the advertisement does not reference Carter as a candidate for the Senate or otherwise indicate that he has made a decision to run for the Senate," according to Fox 5.
Carter was considering a challenge to Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, but decided to seek reelection to his current 1st District House seat after football star Herschel Walker decided to run against Warnock.
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