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●MN-01: Politico's Daniel Newhauser reported Friday that vulnerable Republican Rep. Jim Hagedorn has not disclosed paying any rent on the southern Minnesota campaign office he's used since 2013, an arrangement that may violate campaign finance laws. While this might sound like a run-of-the-mill campaign finance story, we promise you it's anything but.
The story starts with the Brett's Building in Mankato, Minnesota, a rehabilitated department store that's been owned for most of the past seven years by a Hagedorn donor named Gordon Awsumb. Newhauser writes that both Hagedorn's campaign and Awsumb have given "conflicting accounts of why no payments have been disclosed," saying it "adds up to a portrait of, at best, highly irregular or sloppy spending practices; at worst, it's a breach of campaign finance law."