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Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) at the Capitol on Jan. 4, 2021, the day after he was sworn in.
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The Federal Election Commission wrote to the campaign of first-term congressman Troy Nehls (R-Texas), expressing concerns about several of its financial reports on Thursday.
The FEC asked the campaign to provide additional information about how it spent $1,685, accepted potentially excessive contributions, failed to disclose information about a conduit that passed along contributions, neglected to file a required report, reported inconsistent cash-on-hand figures, and failed to add correctly.
The $1,685 payment appears to have involved a reimbursement of personal purchases by Daniel Gribble, a campaign staffer. (The FEC letter said the transaction in question involved “reimbursement of personal purchases” on the campaign’s pre-general 2020 report; Gribble’s payment of $1,685 on Oct. 14 is the only receipt with that description in the filing.)
Gribble has since moved on to join Nehls’ House office staff as his spokesperson.
Reached at Nehls’ House office, Gribble declined to comment on a campaign matter over a government phone. Gribble has not replied to subsequent emails sent to his personal account.
Prior to being elected to Congress, Nehls served for eight years as the sheriff of Fort Bend County, Texas.
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I took an unusual route to get here. In a past life, I worked as a travel and food writer, which is how I got the assignment in 2016 to cover the grand opening of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., just a couple miles from my home. When Trump won the election and refused to divest his business, I stayed on the story, starting a newsletter called 1100 Pennsylvania (named after the hotel’s address) and contributed to Vanity Fair, Politico and NBC News. I’m still interested in Trump, but I’ve broadened my focus to follow the money connected to other politicians as well—both Republicans and Democrats.