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The kerfuffle Deann Mitchell, chair of Johnson County Democratic Party, said the county party's 50-member board decided to promote select candidates based on fundraising, cooperation with the party and, in one case, a candidate's conduct. The party printed 70,000 voter guides and planned a candidate forum for the U.S. Senate race before the disclosure commission intervened. Mitchell said she had to claw back the voter guides, which were already in canvassers' hands, and reprint them at a cost of $13,000. The party chose not to include federal races in the reprinted voter guide or on the website, and to cancel the forum. Mitchell said the decision was based on Wilson telling her she wasn't allowed to spend money on "a" federal candidate. "So from that, I took it that we could not have 'any' federal candidates on our voter guide, website, anything," Mitchell said. The real constraint was that the county party's board was unwilling to be all-inclusive with the candidates.
The kerfuffle Deann Mitchell, chair of Johnson County Democratic Party, said the county party's 50-member board decided to promote select candidates based on fundraising, cooperation with the party and, in one case, a candidate's conduct. The party printed 70,000 voter guides and planned a candidate forum for the U.S. Senate race before the disclosure commission intervened. Mitchell said she had to claw back the voter guides, which were already in canvassers' hands, and reprint them at a cost of $13,000. The party chose not to include federal races in the reprinted voter guide or on the website, and to cancel the forum. Mitchell said the decision was based on Wilson telling her she wasn't allowed to spend money on "a" federal candidate. "So from that, I took it that we could not have 'any' federal candidates on our voter guide, website, anything," Mitchell said. The real constraint was that the county party's board was unwilling to be all-inclusive with the candidates.