NEW: Former Nevada GOP Chair Files FEC Complaint Against David Flippo [Washington Post]

• Just yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Flippo listed a donation in his most recent FEC report from a woman who died in 2024.
• Mother Jones reported evidence of a straw donor scheme, including that another “major donor” listed in Flippo’s FEC report says they never donated to Flippo’s campaign.
• Flippo has still not filed his legally required personal financial disclosure – which is years overdue – despite loaning his campaign $1.8 million. A draft that he gave to a news outlet, but refused to sign under penalty of perjury, raises serious flags about Flippo’s finances.

Read the latest reporting for yourself…

Washington Post: Longtime Nevada Republican files complaint against GOP congressional candidate

• Bob Seale, the onetime chairman of the Nevada Republican Party, filed a Federal Election Commission complaint Tuesday against David Flippo, a Republican congressional candidate in Nevada who has come under scrutiny for his personal finances and campaign finance reports.
• The complaint, shared first with The Washington Post, pulls from reporting by several outlets, including Mother Jones, which reported that a “major donor” listed on Flippo’s FEC report said they had not donated anything to his campaign, and the Nevada Independent, which reported on the Republican candidate’s failure to file a personal financial disclosure document and raised questions about how he was self-financing his campaign.
• “This allegation raises serious concerns about the accuracy of the reports that Respondents filed with the Commission,” Seale writes in the complaint, calling for an investigation.
• Seale, a Republican who served two terms as Nevada treasurer in the 1990s and ran for the seat Flippo is seeking in 1996, compares Flippo to Republican former congressman George Santos. 
• “I find it offensive that he thinks he can get away with it,” Seale told The Post, adding that he is still a registered Republican but will “likely” vote for Flippo’s opponent, Democrat Teresa Benitez-Thompson.