Democratic state Sen.-elect Patrick Schmidt of Topeka has agreed to pay a $500 fine as part of a consent order entered into with the state ethics commission after sending campaign mailers without a paid-for attribution.
The ethics commission approved the consent agreement, meaning that if the issue went to a hearing that "clear and convincing evidence" would be introduced to support a finding of a series of facts including that political mailers were sent without proper attribution.
Appearing virtually before the commission on Wednesday, Schmidt agreed to a finding that his campaign sent out two mailers in July . . .
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