SOS looking into Beck doughnations

Chief Deputy Idaho Secretary of State Tim Hurst said the Secretary of State’s office will be looking into an apparent attempt to evade campaign finance limits by Doyle Beck, who gave a series of $1,000 contributions to legislative candidate M.C. “Chick” Heileson from related companies that Beck owns. “We’re going to look at it,” Hurst said today. He said when Idaho’s Sunshine Law was amended in 2006 to apply contribution limits – which are $1,000 per primary or general election, for contributions to a legislative candidate from any individual or corporation – to aggregate contributions from related companies, unions or other entities, this is the type of activity that was foreclosed/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.