Amid internal controversies over the Republican Party of Minnesota’s debt after state Chairman Tony Sutton’s resignation, party officers and insiders initially maintained that the state GOP was not legally required to pay the nearly $500,000 in legal fees racked up during the 2010 gubernatorial election recount.
But they were in for a shock: Although its existence was apparently unknown to them, an agreement signed by Sutton does leave the state GOP liable to pay those legal bills.
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