SOS to assemblywoman: We think you broke the law, but you can just make a charitable donation

Secretary of State Ross Miller, in a stipulation agreed to with Assemblywoman Kathy McClain, agreed to allow her to donate a little more than $7,000 to charity as opposed to being sanctioned for illegally using campaign funds for personal use. The stipulation suggests Miller believes her payments to PERS are a "personal obligation" and that conclusion "could be sustained" in court. But because she did not make the payments "in bad faith" because she disclosed it on her campaign form, she simply has to donate the funds to charity.

McClain agreed to donate $7,276 to a charity, the same amount she used to pay into her public employee retirement fund this year because of time she missed from her Clark County job.

There were a total of nine payments to retirement, health benefits and for rent. Miller said in an interview that rent while legislators were serving in Carson City was an acceptable expense, but retirement and health benefits were not.

Miller said most of the other charges were dropped because the statute of limitations had passed on the payments; he said a $1,945 payment McClain's campaign made to her health benefits in February of this year wasn't addressed because of the agreement to settle.

McClain, in reaching the deal with fellow Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller, avoided prosecution, as she faced a fine of $5,000 for each violation.

McClain's primary opponent for state Senate, fellow Assembly member Mark Manendo, said in a statement, "Just because Kathy McClain didn’t ‘mean’ to break the law doesn’t change the fact that she still broke the law."

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Criminals like this are why it’s SOS elections just may be as or more important than governors races this year. These obamathugs will be in charge of determining whose votes will be “accepted” in their states. My guess is that conservative votes will be diminished in states that have SOS’s like this criminal.

Secretary of State Ross Miller, in a stipulation agreed to with Assemblywoman Kathy McClain, agreed to allow her to donate a little more than $7,000 to charity as opposed to being sanctioned for illegally using campaign funds for personal use. The stipulation suggests Miller believes her payments to PERS are a "personal obligation" and that conclusion "could be sustained" in court. But because she did not make the payments "in bad faith" because she disclosed it on her campaign form, she simply has to donate the funds to charity. Both officials are Democrats.

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