South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster is asking some of his campaign contributors for permission to use their donations in his run for governor. But an Ethics Commission official warns that any money connected to a gubernatorial campaign needs to come from a separate campaign account, even money spent innitially to organize the process of asking contributors their permission for the switch. A spokesman for McMaster says opening the new account would be the same as announcing for the race and McMaster isn’t ready for that. Law allows a candidate or incumbent to have only one campaign account at a time. [click to continue…]
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