Illegal contributions?
The NC GOP sent this press release last week, claiming that Democrat Kay Hagan had taken $185,000 in illegal campaign contributions in her bid to unseat Republican Elizabeth Dole.
After reading the news release, the complaint and the backup material, I used the Monday Inside Scoop column to explore the claim. Here is the upshot from CRP:
Massie Ritsch, with the Center for Responsive Politics, more tactfully pointed out that husbands and wives who shared a bank account were allowed to give at the same time on the same check."This is an accounting complaint that appears to be geared more toward getting attention than getting enforcement," Ritsch said.