Twelve days before their Supreme Court runoff election, challenger Tamela "Tammy" Adkins has been hit with an ethics complaint, and her opponent, Justice David Nahmias, continued to have e-mail problems.
Susan Voyles of Sandy Springs filed the complaint against Adkins on Thursday, charging that Adkins had not filed a personal financial disclosure report with the State Ethics Commission for her failed 2008 Court of Appeals campaign, or for her current campaign.
Also, Adkins' final 2008 contribution disclosure report noted she had almost $40,000 cash on hand, but Adkins has not filed a report explaining what she did with that money, the complaint said.
Adkins, a Lawrenceville attorney, said Thursday she was working to remedy the oversights. "My personal financial disclosure has been filed with the Ethics Commission and I am working on the previous financial disclosure," she said.
Also Thursday, the Nahmias campaign acknowledged that it had sent a second e-mail to supporters noting that the maximum financial contribution they could give was $6,100. But state law sets the limit for the Nov. 30 runoff at $3,600. The e-mail was sent the same day The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a story about an earlier e-mail sent out by the campaign that contained the same error.
Linton Johnson, a campaign spokesman, called the e-mail snafu "a non-issue." He said the campaign's e-mail designer used the wrong template, instead of one approved by campaign officials.
If anyone donates more than the $3,600 limit, the excess will be returned, he said. "We decided not to send another e-mail correcting the maximum amount because we did not want to burden our e-mail recipients with a legally and practically inconsequential issue," he said.
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