Spencer Cox may be in BIG Trouble after Misusing Public Funds

On April 30, 2020, I filed a petition against the Office of the Lt. Governor of Utah and Spencer Cox. I filed the complaint because Lieutenant Governor Cox appears to have deliberately used his official website, paid for with taxpayer dollars, to campaign for political office.

What he’s doing is illegal. It’s black and white. You can’t push your personal Twitter account on state websites at the taxpayers’ expense. It’s against the law and the penalty for it is a misdemeanor.

I submitted all the screenshots from March that prove that the LG’s website was changed to prominently show Cox’s Twitter account that he uses for campaign purposes – as well as his campaign video deliberately pinned at the top of the Twitter feed. It is obvious that he knows what he did was wrong because, after I filed my complaint, he removed the link to his campaign Twitter account from the public website.

Problem is, the damage is already done and can’t be undone. Just because you catch someone cheating and then they stop, it doesn’t all of a sudden make it a fair election. His campaign video has had hundreds of thousands of views & we have no idea how much money he’s raised, corporate donations received & how many volunteers he has recruited. All at the taxpayers’ expense.

I would have submitted my complaint sooner, but it’s not a simple process. As a former police officer, I verified the evidence and made sure I understood all the rules related to filing a petition as well as the petition review process.

Of course, I may get slandered. Perhaps the wording & terminology of it will be scrutinized and they will attempt to do anything to take the focus off of the one thing that actually matters; Spencer Cox’s misuse of public funds.

After submitting the petition, all I’ve heard from the LG’s office is they turned the complaint over to the Attorney General’s office, but I believe voters need to know now about this. Ballots have already been mailed out and time is of the essence. I am simply requesting that the complaint be investigated without bias. There is a lot of evidence presented in the complaint that needs to be looked at.

Spencer Cox has broken the trust of his constituents. We absolutely deserve better than this in Utah.