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GOP asks DA to investigate Smith finance report

PDF: Complaint against Kenny Smith

Hamilton County Republican Party officials on Tuesday submitted a complaint questioning the top fundraiser in the Hamilton County Commission races.

The complaint comes a week after reports that District 8 candidate Kenny Smith, a Democrat and Hamilton County Board of Education chairman, changed the address of a $5,000 campaign contribution from the Washington, D.C.-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union.

Records dated Jan. 15 show the money came from the union’s national office in Washington, but on April 24, Mr. Smith filed a revised campaign financial document identifying the union’s Chattanooga headquarters as the check’s source.

Correction fluid is evident on the second form.