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  County clerk files ethics complaint against Grimes
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News DateFriday, July 26, 2013 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionFRANKFORT — A county clerk in southeastern Kentucky has asked the Executive Branch Ethics Commission to determine the propriety of a fundraising email sent last week to government email accounts by Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.

Republican Laurel County Clerk Dean Johnson filed the complaint Thursday, a week after receiving the email from Grimes, a candidate for U.S. Senate.

Johnson is asking the Ethics Commission to determine the legality of the secretary of state sending fundraising emails to county clerks who report to her in matters pertaining to elections. Johnson said he thinks that Grimes acted unethically by using a government email list to raise money and that she also might have run afoul of state law.

Grimes political adviser Jonathan Hurst had no immediate comment.
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