The allegation comes after a prior incident in which he admitted to sending out a mailer from the wrong committee — a significant lapse.
Bilal Mahmood's dual purpose website advertising both his supervisor race and his Democratic Central County Committee race, which was linked in ads paid for by his DCCC campaign.
Jessica Gutierrez, the political director with Mahmood’s DCCC campaign, said there was no violation and that the campaign checked with its legal team before taking out the ads. The practice of using one’s Democratic County Central Committee campaign as a springboard for supervisor is not novel, and Mahmood is not alone in using the race to rake in unlimited funds and increase his name recognition.
And, Ross said, officials should appear unimpeachable and hold themselves to “a higher standard” to avoid even the appearance of violating the law.
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