District 6 candidate Steve Brodie hit with ethics complaint (Update)
Complaint alleges candidate received campaign contributions that exceeded maximum amount allowed by state ethics law
The question in the recent ethics complaint filed against City Council candidate Steve Brodie is this: Did he knowingly try to sidestep state ethics laws that limit the amount companies can contribute to a candidate?
The other question: Did Brodie — one of six candidates running to represent the uber-political District 6 that includes Midtown, Morningside and Candler Park — even know he could have been violating the $2,400 cap placed on contributions from companies?
And might it have been the ethics commission, and not Brodie, who denies the allegations, that erred when it said the contributions were kosher?
A complaint filed Wednesday with the state Ethics Commission focuses on four separate campaign contributions Brodie received from four different real estate and development companies during the months of May and June that totaled $2,875.
What’s the problem, then? Well, according to the complaint, all four companies have the same address and corporate officers. And state ethics law limits campaign contributions by a company and its affiliated companies to $2,400.