State Ethics Committee slaps down Carr complaint

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, a Republican candidate for governor, suffered a setback when the State Ethics Commission ruled his ethics complaint against Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, also a GOP gubernatorial hopeful, failed to prove any violation of a campaign finance law. The panel said a financial disclosure report filed by Jones three years prior, detailing his financial assets and standing at that specific point in time, doesn’t form a factual and legal basis to investigate an alleged false or incorrect filing made in a campaign report more than three years later. (Could Carr have gotten some bad legal advice in filing the complaint?) Predictably, a Jones campaign spokeswoman calls it “a political stunt” and “the first of many losses for the Carr campaign.” For now, the attorney general is DRIFTING…