ST.PAUL, Minn. – Two attorneys for the Minnesota Republican Party seemed to acknowledge the facts of a Federal Elections Commission audit on financial irregularities in GOP campaign spending records but diminshed them as “minor reporting issues.” Fact: Those “minor issues” involved $1.6 million. Toner and Zehr’s characterization of “minor issues” was in a letter to the Commission in response t $110,000 in fines. In the letter Toner and Zehr said the GOP agreed to pay the fines – not to contest them. Toney and Zehr said the state GOP executive committee was addressing the audit’s findings internally with “a number of proactive steps.”
