Word: burtons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...next day election commissioners insisted that Driskell and Burton were well beneath the $100 maximum spending limit. Then election commissioners said they weren't really so sure...
Last year's election commission found itself at the center of council controversy when candidates sparred over the campaign expenditures of the Driskell-Burton campaign...
First, the election commission said Driskell and Burton had overspent their campaign limit, a violation which, unbeknownst to election commissioners, would have resulted in the ticket's automatic expulsion from the race...
Last fall, there was a general sense among Driskell-Burton opponents that the election commission was unwilling to enforce the rules, and a sense among Driskell-Burton supporters that the election commission confusion was contributing to the suspicion surrounding their ticket...
...waited until the canvassing board reconvened in front of live TV cameras to make her move. She called quickly for a vote, cutting off debate. When Charles Burton, the county judge who chairs the board, suggested they wait for legal opinions from secretary of state Katherine Harris, Roberts said, "I'm not asking for an opinion, I'm asking for a vote." Burton later accused Roberts of "bushwhacking" him. He'd thought they were on friendly terms, having taken smoking breaks with Roberts during their marathon counting sessions...