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City Nears Settlement w/Sims-Macy

Posted by DFO

March 17, 2009 11:54 a.m. • 0 comments

City Attorney Mike Gridley told Huckleberries moments ago that the city is close to a settlement with Kathy Sims and Tom Macy over alleged campaign finance violations that occurred during the 2007 municipal elections. In the closing days of that campaign, Sims & Macy were involved in circulated a flyer attacking incumbents Ron Edinger, Al Hassell and Dixie Reid. The city alleges that money for the flyer wasn’t reported properly or in a timely manner. The city will be glad to settle the matter if Sims and Macy will issue a letter acknowledging the campaign finance violations and pay a fine (that will be considerably less than the $20,000 accrued in possible fines for missing deadlines and incomplete information).

Question: Is this a decent settlement to the long-running flap involving possible campaign violations by Sims & Macy?

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.