GOVERNMENT WATCHDOG FILES ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST FLORIDA DEMOCRAT OVER ALLEGED ABUSE OF OFFICIAL RESOURCES
Steven Ahle
September 7, 2023
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost Stands Accused Of Using Government Resources For His Campaign For Reelection.

The complaint was filed by The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) has asked the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to investigate the allegations against Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost over the abuse of government services he has used in his campaign.

The complaint, first obtained by The Daily Wire, said that Frost has used his campaign account on X to publish posts that use official government resources, including photographs, which is a violation of House rules.
Kendra Arnold, the executive director of FACT, told The Daily Wire:

“Rep. Frost’s social media use has quite clearly abused official resources and is troubling. The law plainly requires strict separation between campaign and official acts to both protect taxpayers from funding political activity, and from unfairly benefitting incumbent members of Congress. Violating such a basic rule in a sphere as public-facing as social media is both an awful reflection on Rep. Frost and the House as a whole. While we await the OCE’s investigation into this matter, the simple response here from Rep. Frost should be to apologize and, at a bare minimum, delete these past posts and cease this activity in the future — we hope that is what he chooses to do.”