Montana Outsider, Washington Insider: Shady Sheehy May be Skirting Law with Use of Company Resources For Campaign
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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Sheehy has been boosting his campaign with company resources, including using private company planes to jet to out-of-state fundraisers
Helena, MT – Multimillionaire Tim Sheehy has discovered the campaign resources jackpot: his very own company, Bridger Aerospace. From using his company’s private plane to fly to a fundraiser to filming campaign ads at Bridger Aerospace’s headquarters, Sheehy has made quick use of his taxpayer-funded company’s assets for his campaign – and it may not square with the law.
BACKGROUND: Sheehy repeatedly uses his company’s resources to benefit his campaign, raising legal and ethical questions.
Sheehy may be skirting the law by “mingling business and politics in questionable ways,” and legal experts say he “weighed his candidacy for five months before going public with his campaign, flouting the FEC’s ‘testing the waters’ rules.”
Sheehy repeatedly flew a company plane to campaign events, including a fundraiser.
Sheehy took a reporter on a Bridger Aerospace plane and conducted an interview at Bridger Aerospace’s headquarters.
Sheehy heavily featured Bridger Aerospace in campaign ads – such as his campaign launch video.
Sheehy’s campaign is operating out of Bridger Aerospace – paying the company over $9k in rent for office space, conference rooms, and administrative labor.
Bridger Aerospace’s profit comes from taxpayers – it has secured “around $87.6 million in government contracts.” If elected to the Senate, Sheehy would have oversight of the very agencies that made him rich.
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