Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) responded to reports that his campaign has paid more than $350,000 to a firm that employs his wife since 2020, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.
The firm Pink Cilantro is a Houston-based branding firm that has been in operation since 2013 and has been commissioned by the Crenshaw campaign in the past.
Since 2020, Crenshaw’s campaign has given Pink Cilantro more than $350,000 in funding, FEC records show. Crenshaw’s legally required financial disclosures report Pink Cilantro as “spouse salary.”
In comments to the Daily Caller, who first broke the story, both the owner of the firm and spokespeople for Crenshaw’s campaign insisted that the donations had been entirely in line with federal law….