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Oxendine returns contributions

Story Published: Jul 9, 2009 at 10:00 AM EST

Story Updated: Jul 9, 2009 at 10:00 AM EST

ATLANTA (AP)- Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has returned
$120,000 that was funneled into his gubernatorial campaign by two
insurance firms.

The Republican detailed the returns in a campaign filing submitted late Tuesday night.

The move comes after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that the two Georgia insurance companies sent the money into Oxendine's
campaign through 10 Alabama-based political action committees.

Georgia law forbids public officials from taking money from the companies they regulate.

Oxendine has said in a statement that he had requested an advisory opinion from the state ethics officials days before the newspaper's story ran in May. He had called the story a "hit piece.''

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

 


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