Rep TJ Cox has failed to list five companies he has ties to, including two that list him as the primary owner and his seat on a foreign mining board. He won the election over incumbent Rep. David Valadao (R-CA).
But in the primary, Valadao beat him by a 2-1 margin, indicating major hanky panky in an election he won by less than 1000 votes, two weeks after the election. This is not his only controversial item in the election. He ran in California even though his main residence was min Bethesda, Maryland.
He received a tax break in Maryland as a resident but had to pay the money back in order to declare California residence.
First-term Rep. T.J. Cox (D-CA) “failed to disclose ties to five businesses, two of which he is still listed as a primary owner or director,” while running for Congress, according to an investigation by the Fresno Bee.
One of those businesses, the Bee reports, is a Canadian mining firm. Ironically, the Beenotes, Cox supported H.R. 1, the “For the People Act,” which would ban representatives from serving on for-profit boards, if passed into law.
Cox has faced questions about his disclosures before. During the 2018 midterm election, when he challenged Rep. David Valadao (R-CA), the Bee revealed that he had a “principal residence” in Bethesda, Maryland. Cox claimed that it was the State of Maryland’s fault and pointed to his many other ties to California’s Central Valley.
But those ties, according to the Bee, include businesses that Cox did not disclose to the House of Representatives.
Moreover, the Bee notes, Cox may have collected a homeowner’s proper tax exemption on his local property in Fresno County, even though he may have rented out his home, making him ineligible to receive the exemption.