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Wyoming U.S. Senate candidate comes under fire
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| Author | Jeremy Pelzer |
| News Date | Saturday, June 2, 2012 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | CHEYENNE—Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Al Hamburg said he plans to file a Federal Election Commission complaint against his primary rival Tim Chesnut after Chesnut said his local Democratic Party agreed to pay his candidate filing fee.
Chesnut, an Albany County commissioner, told the Casper Star-Tribune on Wednesday that the Albany County Democrats would pay his $200 filing fee to run because he’s too poor to pay it himself.
“The county party is going to pick that up for me,” he said.
Such a plan would be illegal under state law, as no political party is allowed to use party money to help a candidate in a primary election.
Chesnut said Thursday that he “misspoke” and meant to say that an individual member of the Albany County Democrats had planned to stake his filing fee.
However, Chesnut said that given the uproar, he will pay the fee himself. As of Thursday afternoon, he hadn’t yet filed to run; the filing deadline is 5 p.m. today. |
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