NATIONAL BRIEFING / WASHINGTON, D.C.
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint over the $150,000-plus designer wardrobe the Republican Party bought to outfit vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington argued that candidates aren’t supposed to use donor money for personal expenses such as clothes. The FEC ruled that the ban doesn’t apply to party money.
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