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Portland candidates talked swapping donations to hit small donor threshold | Worth Your Time
Willamette Week's Sophie Peel broke the story about messages between candidates suggesting they trade donations as they tried to qualify for public matching ...
Your piece strongly implies that the reciprocal donations were not counted toward the 250 needed to qualify for the public funding program. But the program did not disqualify those donations. It treated them like any other donations. The director of the program stated that it was up to each candidate to not report those donations as "qualifying," but in fact the candidates did report those donations as qualifying.
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