Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems unclear about whether the Driskell-Burton ticket actually exceeded this limit. This ambiguity and the EC's questionable response have fueled speculation on the council that the ticket should have been disqualified from the race...
...almost 24 hours after the election, four EC members said that Driskell and Burton had exceeded the spending limit...
Despite his previous claims, he said that Driskell and Burton were not over the spending limit. Rather, he said, all the EC members had been confused after a long and stressful night of tabulating election results...
Driskell and Burton could be redeemed, he said, not because they returned the goods that exceeded the limit, but because of the type of goods that would have brought them over...
...originally said the pair received too many "in-kind" donations--goods that a ticket receives for free but that still count towards its total expense limit. Driskell and Burton claimed, though, that these were actually things any candidate could have obtained and should not count toward their total spending...