Letter of the law

The attorney general's office will decide if Secretary of State Nancy Worley solicited campaign donations from her employees, which would violate Alabama election law. The complaint came from her Democratic primary opponent, Ed Packard, a veteran election administrator who says Worley's letter to several staffers included a bumper sticker and asked for donations ranging from $25 to $1,000. It also stated that recipients would not face negative repercussions if they backed Packard.

Worley denies that she ever sought donations from her employees and pegged the blame for the complaint on "partisan politics and free media attention." (Tangentially, is it still partisan politics when your opponent is a member of the same party?) Packard's response: "I take [election law] seriously, and this is not something I raise just to create a controversy."

Yes, I know the post title is corny, but I just can't help it. Sorry.