Danny Tarkanian made a new friend last year. The insurgent candidate, who is running in the Nevada Republican primary to unseat incumbent Sen. Dean Heller, obtained the endorsement of former deputy assistant to President Trump, Sebastian Gorka. He couldn’t be happier.
When Gorka gave his blessing on Dec. 20, 2017, Tarkanian beamed. And when Gorka attacked incumbent Heller as “a man who will lie about what he said yesterday,” Tarkanian was ecstatic.
I'm proud to support @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and #AmericaFirst. Thank you @SebGorka for your endorsement. We will WIN BIG in Nevada and FIGHT the DC Establishment!! #NVsen pic.twitter.com/IJmj7boATU
— Danny Tarkanian (@DannyTarkanian) December 22, 2017
But there’s a detail to the Gorka-Tarkanian friendship that hasn’t been made public yet: Tarkanian, in December, paid Gorka $5,000 for a one time “speaking fee,” according to FEC filings.
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But this sort of thing is not normal. A search of FEC records for “honorarium” or “speaking” left the Washington Examiner mostly empty-handed. In the last two election cycles, only three House candidates paid speaking fees (averaging less than $2,000) and not a single Senate candidate paid a speaking fee or honorarium according to this search.
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Seb Gorka endorsed Danny Tarkanian. We just learned that Tarkanian's campaign paid Gorka $5,000 at the same time. https://t.co/lLKuoP6dib
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) February 8, 2018
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