FEC permits Senate candidate to purchase books with campaign funds

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – An independent candidate from Oklahoma running for U.S. Senate has been granted permission to purchase copies of her own book with campaign funds.

On July 14, Joan Farr submitted a request for an advisory opinion with the Federal Election Commission, seeking to use her principal fundraising entity, Joan Farr for U.S. Senate, to purchase a book she wrote in 2003, entitled “Ten Secrets You Must Know Before Hiring a Lawyer.”