| Today, Navy veteran Bale Dalton revealed his plan to root out corruption in Washington and stop special interests and political insiders from drowning out Floridians’ voices in Congress.
New reporting outlines Dalton’s plan, which includes overhauling the Congressional Ethics Committee, banning congressional stock trading, and cracking down on corruption schemes like the Hope Florida scandal.
While Dalton is setting out to clean up Washington, Ryan Elijah is already swimming in the swamp. Elijah has already made it known that he is planning to trade stocks if elected, and he was also hit with an ethics complaint over failing to report details of up to $5 million in assets.
DCCC Spokesperson Madison Andrus:
“Bale Dalton is taking on Washington corruption by the horns because he is committed to putting Floridians first, no matter how many dirty dollars and corrupt politicians try to stop him. Meanwhile, Ryan Elijah has made it clear he’s only in it to pad his own resume while he rubs elbows with the D.C elite and leaves Florida families in the dust.”
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Roll Call: Florida Democrat is latest candidate to unveil anticorruption plan
- A Democrat running for a Central Florida seat on the edge of the House battleground unveiled an anti-corruption plan Thursday that calls for overhauling the Ethics Committee, joining other candidates who’ve made fighting corruption a campaign focal point this year.
- Bale Dalton, a former NASA chief of staff, is running for Florida’s open 7th District, where Republican Rep. Cory Mills lost an August primary while facing an Ethics panel inquiry and sexual misconduct allegations.
- Dalton said voters in the district remain focused on accountability – and want to see more of it from Congress.
- “We’ve reached a high point of a seeming nonchalance and acceptance of the folks in Washington, D.C., of this just never-before-seen level of corruption and grift,” Dalton said in an interview. “Folks are completely fed up with it.”
- Dalton’s anticorruption plan, shared exclusively with CQ Roll Call, calls for banning congressional stock trading, banning federal government employees and elected officials from betting on prediction markets and stripping taxpayer-funded pensions, among other things, from members of Congress found guilty of ethics violations or who resigned from office during an ongoing ethics investigation. He also said that the House Ethics Committee needs to move more quickly and be more transparent, and that members should be subject to independent audits on their financial disclosures.
- While Dalton called Mills the “poster child” for voters’ ethics concerns, he also criticized Elijah for having indicated on a Florida candidate form that he would trade stocks while in office, if elected. Elijah told Politico that he checked the box on trading stocks “in the interest of full transparency,” since he didn’t yet know how his retirement account would be managed. Dalton, whose financial disclosure report also shows he holds several stocks, indicated on his own form that he did not intend to trade stocks if elected.
- Elijah also faced an ethics complaint over not reporting details of certain assets on the financial disclosure form filed with the House clerk.
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