| No cheap trick is off-limits for Carrie Buck — even if that means causing headaches for a local school.
According to new reporting, one Nevada parent is alleging Buck broke the law by campaigning with Speaker Mike Johnson at Pinecrest Academy Sloan Canyon, a charter school. As a nonprofit, charter schools are “absolutely prohibited” from engaging in any type of “partisan political activity” — like the exact type of event Buck was holding.
Buck was even “accompanied by a camera crew from the National Republican Congressional Committee.”
The “blatant partisan visit” did not include notifying parents ahead of time and did not give students the option to opt out of the event.
DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“Nevadans deserve a leader who doesn’t believe they’re above the law and won’t use their children for a cheap photo op. Representative Dina Titus will continue putting Nevada families first, which is why voters will send her back to Congress in November.”
Read for yourself:
Nevada Current: Buck violated tax code by campaigning at charter school, parent complains to state
- Congressional candidate and state Sen. Carrie Buck violated federal tax regulations when she campaigned at a Henderson charter school in August with Republican U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, says a parent who alleges the school was used for partisan political activity, a violation of its nonprofit status.
- Pinecrest Academy Sloan Canyon, the school Buck and Johnson visited, like all charter schools in the state, is designated a 501(c)(3) nonprofit under the tax code. As such, it is “absolutely prohibited” from engaging in political activity, according to the IRS. The prohibition is also stated in the school’s by-laws.
- “While I question the very legality of this event, I also question Pinecrest’s judgment in having a blatant partisan visit at an elementary/high school, within the very classrooms of our students, without any choice for students or parents to participate,” Adelei Kaplan wrote in a complaint filed with the State Public Charter School Authority.
- Her campaign did not respond to numerous requests for comment.
- “The fact that the photo was taken by the NRCC (the political arm of House Republicans) is evidence that this was a political event,” Kaplan wrote to the Charter School Authority. She noted she had spoken to “fellow Pinecrest parents. Sadly, most of them are too afraid to formally speak up in the current political environment…”
- “The parents should have the right to expect that if they’re sending their child to school or church, you shouldn’t have somebody telling you how to vote,” attorney Bradley Schrager, who specializes in nonprofit law, told the Current. “It’s Trump’s IRS. In this country right now, nobody’s going to do a damn thing about it. They should, but they won’t.”
- [Representative Dina] Titus, in a statement to the Current, alleged that “Buck, like Donald Trump, believes she is above the law. She exploited schoolchildren for political gain. She owes Pinecrest parents and their children an apology and should be held accountable if she broke federal law.”
- A student who posted a video on social media noting “most Sloan Canyon Students aren’t MAGA,” told the Current that parents were not notified until after the event.
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