My mailbox is filled with Ted Cruz complaints this morning from all over the country and elsewhere.

The major complaints seem to deal around his book writing hanky-panky.  Ted writes books, uses his campaign funds to advertise those books so people will buy them, and then personally pockets from the profits of those books. You can’t profit from your campaign account.  But, he does. Turns out being a U.S. Senator is a well-paying day job while you actually spend your time working on your writing career.

And, as only the criminal mind of the Zodiac Killer could plot, he may be profiting off a “shadowy” company by using his campaign funds to actually buy his own books and then pocketing the 10 – 15% royalty himself.

One day before the Georgia Senate runoff elections — and two days before the Capitol insurrection — a leadership PAC attached to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a mystery company that had previously bought copies of Cruz’s book, according to recent filings with the Federal Election Commission. The expenses raise questions about whether the controversial conservative senator (and Cancún frequent-flyer) used those political campaigns, and Donald Trump’s attempt to subvert the democratic process, to raise money for himself.

And this ain’t no chump change.  We’re talking $1.2 million.  That pays for Cancun vacations.  The Salon article is long and you might want to keep a pencil and pad close at hand to make notes so you can follow along, but it’s a fascinating look into the minds of people who scam for a living.

And then there’s our friends in Canada —

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.