Democratic congressional candidate Melissa Vine and her former campaign manager Lou McDonald were each fined $500 by the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board on Thursday after the board’s investigation found the two made contributions to a state political action committee in other people’s names.
The board’s investigation, launched a week earlier, was into a complaint made by Iowa Unity Coalition, a progressive PAC. The complaint was over potential illegal contributions leading up to the PAC’s endorsement vote for Iowa’s 3rd congressional district race. Participants had to pay $20 to the coalition to vote for who the group would endorse in the race: Vine faces Lanon Baccam, a former U.S. Department of Agriculture official and Biden campaign staffer, in the June 7 Democratic primary.
Mitch Henry, chair of the coalition, said that the day of and day prior to the April 30 online endorsement vote, the PAC saw a sudden increase in…
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