Presidential Run For Carson Is Just
A Profit Making Scheme
By Cenk Uygur
Ben Carson has asked for Secret Service protection. He believes
secular progressive hoards are coming to destroy him. Cenk Uygur,
host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think
in the comment section below.
Posted November 03, 2015
Ben Carson 'Suspends' Campaign For A Book Tour
Running for president is a lucrative business.
By Igor Bobic
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) suspended his presidential campaign
for a financial crisis. Famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson is
doing so for a book tour.
According to
ABC News, Carson has put his public campaign events on hold
to focus on fundraising events and stops to promote his new
book, A More Perfect Union. He is scheduled to hold
book signings next week in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska and Iowa.
Carson's last public event was a health care town hall
meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, on Oct. 2. He will not appear at a
public campaign event again until the next Republican
presidential debate in Boulder, Colorado, on Oct. 28.
Carson's campaign staff will not travel with him while he's on
his book tour to avoid the unsavory image that he's using his
presidential bid to make money, a spokesman told ABC. But there
are legal issues at hand, too. Federal law prohibits candidates
from using campaign resources to profit personally.
Even
though he won't be supported by campaign staff or resources, the
tour still gives Carson an opportunity to travel and engage with
prospective voters. Only in this case, the costs and planning
associated with the tour will be handled by his publisher,
Sentinel.
The retired doctor isn't the first presidential candidate to
take advantage of such a scheme. During the 2012 campaign,
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich similarly
blurred the lines between official campaign business and his
vast for-profit book empire.
Carson's fundraising pace -- he will hold some 20 events over
the next two weeks, according to ABC -- also explains the amount
of money his campaign has hauled in over the last three months.
In September, the campaign announced it had raised more than
$20 million, one of the largest amounts in the race so far.
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