ICYMI – San Antonio Express-News: “Financial, sexual scandals follow top guy in ‘Democrats for Cruz’ campaign”
AUSTIN, Texas – After The Daily Beast reported that one of Ted Cruz’s top campaign surrogates “faced claims of inappropriate behavior toward female staffers,” a new report in the San Antonio Express-News digs deep into the problems surrounding Cruz’s “Democrats for Cruz” campaign, underscoring just another reason why Cruz is only out for himself, not Texans.
San Antonio Express-News: Financial, sexual scandals follow top guy in “Democrats for Cruz” campaign
By Robin Bradshaw
Javier Palomarez, the leading Democrat supporting Ted Cruz in the recent “Democrats for Cruz” campaign, and ads recently faced scandals and drama with allegations of improperly paying himself hundreds of thousands of dollars while head of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, leading to a resignation and sexual harassment allegations.
Palomarez, known now as the founder, president, and CEO of the United States Hispanic Business Council, was previously head of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce before resigning after allegations he sexually harassed an employee and improperly paid himself hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to a report from the New York Times in 2018.
“Mr. Palomarez, who has run the organization for close to a decade, was accused by a longtime board member last fall of paying himself hundreds of thousands of dollars more than he was entitled to under his contract, according to minutes from the board’s charitable foundation and a Texas court filing,” a portion of New York Times read. In addition to the financial misconduct allegations, sexual harassment allegations were also brought forth by his former chief of staff.
After the investigation, six members of the board’s executive committee voted to give Palomarez a chance to resign within a week and repay the chamber a negotiated amount of money. At that point, the organization estimated the overpayment at $500,000 to $600,000, according to the board minutes, the New York Times reported.
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