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BlueToTheBone

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Fri Aug 23, 2013, 10:29 PM Aug 2013

Mark Darr: Trying to Correct Errors Made on Campaign Reports

Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 4:03 pm


Arkansas Lt. Gov. Mark Darr.

LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas Lt. Gov. Mark Darr said Thursday he's correcting unspecified errors on his campaign finance reports, days after a website questioned hundreds of dollars spent at restaurants and gas stations shortly after he took office that were classified as fundraising expenses.

Darr, who's seeking the Republican nomination for a south Arkansas congressional seat, said the errors were related to reports from when his campaign was raising money to pay off the loan he made for his successful 2010 bid for the lieutenant governor's office.

"It has come to my attention that I have made some errors on my debt reporting forms," Darr said in a prepared statement. "I am going through those now and working with the Ethics Commission to ensure everything is done properly and all debt relief is accounted for. I hope to have any issue we find resolved shortly."

Darr didn't specify the errors made and a spokesman declined to elaborate. The statement was issued two days after the Blue Hog Report, a Democrat-leaning blog, detailed hundreds of dollars Darr reported spending in campaign funds. It included $1,500 spent on tickets to an Arkansas football game.

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/94238/mark-darr-trying-to-correct-errors-made-on-campaign-reports

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Mark Darr: Trying to Correct Errors Made on Campaign Reports (Original Post) BlueToTheBone Aug 2013 OP
Have you been able to get a pulse on this story? Art_from_Ark Aug 2013 #1
Yes, but he spent that money AFTER he won. BlueToTheBone Aug 2013 #2
Since he spent the money to see The Hogs, Art_from_Ark Aug 2013 #3
Only if if was his cousin. BlueToTheBone Aug 2013 #4

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
1. Have you been able to get a pulse on this story?
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 02:49 AM
Aug 2013

Something tells me that spending $1500 on tickets to an Arkansas football game might just work to his advantage

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
3. Since he spent the money to see The Hogs,
Mon Aug 26, 2013, 04:55 PM
Aug 2013

I'm thinking that the average Arkansan might be more forgiving than if he had spent that money on, say, a mistress

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