Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. Here we are talking about Kid Rock (neé Robert Ritchie) again. The rap-country-turned-country-country singer has become the subject of a Federal Election Commission complaint filed Friday by a government watchdog group. Common Cause, a nonpartisan organization that often leans liberal, says Rock is violating federal election laws by acting like a Senate candidate, but not registering his candidacy for the 2018 Senate race in Michigan.

“Regardless of whether Kid Rock says he’s only exploring candidacy, he’s selling ‘Kid Rock for Senate’ merchandise and is a candidate under the law. This is campaign finance law 101,” said Paul S. Ryan, the organization’s vice president for policy and litigation, in a statement published to the organization's Web site. The complaint calls out Warner Bros., Kid Rock’s record label, for acting as a liaison, thanks to the “Kid Rock for Senate” Web site that, for merch purchases, links directly to the official site owned by the record label. On the Senate site Kid Rock promises that “if I decide to throw my hat in the ring for US Senate, believe me . . . it’s game on mthrfkers.“

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When reached for comment about the complaint filed, he said, “I am starting to see reports from the misinformed press and the fake news on how I am in violation of breaking campaign law. #1: I have still not officially announced my candidacy. #2: See #1 and go fuck yourselves.”

The fact that he hasn’t formally announced, nor filed paperwork with the F.E.C., seems to be the issue at hand, however. As Ryan wrote in the Common Cause statement, “Given the activities we’ve documented in the complaint, he can’t reasonably claim to be merely testing the waters of candidacy and thus exempt from candidate filing requirements. He is a candidate and is obligated to abide by all the rules and make the same disclosures required of everyone else running for federal office.”

Kid Rock was an early Trump supporter, and attended a White House dinner along with Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent, and other redneck millionaires in April. Here they are posing menacingly in front of Hillary Clinton’s First Lady portrait:

Mr. Ritchie appears to be behind the Twitter handle @KidRockSenator, he’s still deciding whether to challenge Democrat Debbie Stabenow, the Michigan incumbent who is up for re-election in 2018. The performer wrote on his official site and the Senate campaign site that proceeds from the “Kid Rock for Senate” campaign would go to his new non-profit that promotes voter registration while he mulls over a candidacy.

“Since the announcement, the media has speculated this was a ploy to sell shirts or promote something,” he wrote. “I can tell you, I have no problem selling Kid Rock shirts and yes, I absolutely will use this media circus to sell/promote whatever I damn well please (many other politicians are doing the same thing, they just feed you a bunch of bullshit about it). But either way, money raised at this time through the sale of merchandise associated with this very possible campaign will go toward our ‘register to vote’ efforts.”

Vanity Fair has reached out to Common Complaint for further comment.