MA-GOV: Super PAC illegally coordinated with Diehl (R) campaign in 2022 election, regulators say
tate campaign finance regulators found that former Republican gubernatorial candidate Geoff Diehl and a super PAC that backed his campaign illegally coordinated during the 2022 election.
Office of Campaign and Political Finance Director William Campbell said Diehl’s campaign and the super PAC, called Mass Freedom, hired the same media consultant, the advertising firm MITTCOM, of Needham. That created a presumption of coordination between the campaign and super PAC in violation of state law, according to a filing Wednesday.
“Neither MITTCOM nor Mass Freedom rebutted that presumption by producing evidence that a written firewall existed to prevent the flow of strategic, non-public information between Mass Freedom and the Diehl Committee,” Campbell said in the filing. “Nor were they able to provide evidence indicating that such strategic flow of information was actually prohibited by MITTCOM and its agents.”
Campbell said without evidence of a firewall, all expenditures made by Mass Freedom to MITTCOM for the benefit of Diehl’s campaign “are deemed coordinated or not independent.”
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