NRCC Launches Paid Digital Ad Campaign Exposing Val Hoyle’s Involvement In La Mota Scandal
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) today announced a new paid digital ad campaign exposing Val Hoyle (OR-04) for her involvement in a corruption scandal.
The NRCC’s investment in the 4th Congressional district followed federal prosecutors and the FBI launching a federal criminal investigation into the La Mota scandal.
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NOTE: “Corrupt politicians like Shemia Fagan and Val Hoyle betrayed Oregonians and violated their trust in service to their La Mota donors. This ad buy is just a taste of how voters will come to know Val Hoyle as a key figure in the La Mota scandal and a toxic culture of corruption.”
NRCC Releases Ad Slamming Freshman Dem For ‘Shady’ Ties To Weed Industry
The Daily Caller
Mary Lou Masters
The National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP’s campaign arm, released an ad, first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation, slamming Democratic Oregon Rep. Val Hoyle for alleged “shady” ties to the marijuana industry.
The freshman congresswoman accepted campaign donations for her 2022 congressional bid from several Oregon cannabis executives, including from the controversial marijuana dispensary La Mota and an affiliated nonprofit, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Following the contributions, Hoyle, then the Commissioner of Labor and Industries, oversaw a $554,990 taxpayer grant to the nonprofit ENDVR, co-founded by the dispensary’s CEO, which the NRCC alleges was part of a “pay-to-play” scheme.
“The cannabis company caught up in controversy. Thousands of dollars to then Labor Commissioner Val Hoyle. Stacks of cash donated to Val Hoyle,” the ad said. “In return, Hoyle gave her donors half a million dollar grant. Donations in, our taxpayer money out — that’s the Val Hoyle corrupt machine.”
The co-founders of La Mota — CEO Rosa Cazares and board of directors chair Aaron Mitchell — donated a combined $5,800 to Hoyle’s congressional campaign in April 2022, and Laura Vega, who co-founded ENDVR with Cazeres, made a $1,000 campaign contribution to Hoyle during the same period, according to the FEC. Mitchell also gave Hoyle $20,000 in 2021 for her state campaign fund, according to the Secretary of State website, which Hoyle reportedly returned once she ran for Congress; there is no record of the congresswoman returning the combined $6,800 from the executives.
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“Corrupt politicians like Shemia Fagan and Val Hoyle betrayed Oregonians and violated their trust in service to their La Mota donors,” NRCC spokesperson Ben Petersen told the DCNF in a statement.“This ad buy is just a taste of how voters will come to know Val Hoyle as a key figure in the La Mota scandal and a toxic culture of corruption.”
Hoyle holds one of the Democratic congressional seats the NRCC is hoping to flip in 2024, along with 36 others, according to its website.