Trouble in Maryland: reportedly an aide to State Senator Paula Hollinger, who is running for a Congressional seat, offered General Assembly members a donation from Hollinger's state committee in exchange for a donation to her federal account. Big no-no, that one.
Federal law prohibits congressional candidates who are state officials from transferring campaign money from their local accounts to their federal accounts. When a candidate receives a contribution to a federal account and reimburses the contributor from a separate state account, it is akin to a transfer, the Federal Election Commission has said in an advisory opinion.
Hollinger, a Baltimore County Democrat who is running in an eight-way primary for the 3rd Congressional District seat, denied directing campaign staff to offer money from her state account in exchange for a donation to her federal account - or making such offers herself.
She'd better hope the caller wasn't acting on the authority of the campaign. An eight-way primary doesn't leave a whole lot of room for scandal.
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