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Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 September 2009 01:53 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 2 September 2009 01:53
From BostonHerald.com:
Attorney General Martha Coakley, the first Democrat to pull nomination papers in a potentially packed race for U.S. Senate, spent $24,000 from her state campaign account on consultants in the past two months even though she faces no challengers for the 2010 attorney general race.
The spending comes after Coakley faced scrutiny earlier this year for spending $25,000 out of her state account on a poll asking questions about her potential federal campaign. Coakley said at the time that a portion of the poll was paid for with a legal secret account held to test the waters for a federal race. Candidates for U.S. Senate can only use money collected by their federal campaigns toward federal races, according to elections law.