Busted: Vivek Ramaswamy Campaign Took Money From a Notorious Islamophobe
A prominent Washington state business owner with a history of discrimination against Muslims and unmarried people has donated to billionaire Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s 2024 campaign.
Campaigns of competitive candidates may receive tens of thousands of individual campaign contributions each month, making it difficult to vet the histories of every donor.
But “an ethical campaign is one in which the candidates would not accept funds from someone with a known pattern of bias or prejudice or discrimination against any type of individual or group,” said John P. Pelissero, senior scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.
Pelissero said, "campaigns should have research staffers who process donors’ information, such as their employers and occupations, affiliations with political action committees and their history of donations to other organizations and candidates. Additionally, campaign staff “should know” easily accessible publicly available information about a donor’s behavior," Pelissero said.
John Pelissero, senior scholar, government ethics, quoted by Raw Story.