Whether extreme negligence in an innocent error, or deliberate seeking of unfair and counter-statutory advantage, when a screw-up happens responsible people should be held accountable, aka severed from decision powers into the future.
Has that happened?
I regard the question as key in that the DFL will continue political activity, and if Kelliher were to be governor she would be a key politician, and in political activity problems with money, ethics, or improper appearances due to error will arise.
How situations now are resolved is indicative of how situations in the future will be regarded, and addressed.
If a circle-the-wagons first and foremost attitude prevails, or a stay-together-and-weather-the-storm operation holds, where personal ties and loyalties trump cleaning house to move on without further blemish - to minimize the political ill will and to get the full truth out - that might affect how people make choices on whether to affiliate with a party or remain largely independent (with or without strong preferences), and how this November people in the general election may vote.
Some instant change in the campaign and party organization is not out of the question or infeasible. There has been much time elapsed between when the situation surfaced and when the CFB ruled, time during which senior decision makers in the campaign and party could have taken steps they still may take soon.
It is worth keeping an eye on how things are resolved, at personnel levels, to see "who we really are dealing with."
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To clarify, my view is that even in an instance of wholly innocent error, where others might infer impropriety - where there is the appearance of arguably possible impropriety - the involved persons should be prompt in cleaning house and in doing damage control that way. And I feel this should be so, to suggest a pattern should future untoward situations arise, that the persons would again quickly clean house, and that such an ongoing attitude is desirable as a matter of judgment and sagacity expected of high-level public and party officials. In Chicago this might merely be "business as usual" but we are not Chicago, and even they moved statewide, regarding "Governor Blago."
It is as if "due diligence" and "cleaning house" have to be synonymous, to view it most simply.
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Lori Sturdevant in an online Strib OpEd item, January 14, 2010, this link, echoed a similar opinion:
[...]The campaign and DFL officials said they made an honest mistake. It looked otherwise to the board, for whom ignorance of the law by political pros is not an excuse for violations. "The evidence supports a conclusion that avoidance of these (state statutory) provisions was the underlying purpose" for asking donors to give money to the DFL Party with an understanding that it would benefit Kelliher's campaign, the board found. [Fines substantially exceeded amounts mishandled ...] Vastly larger still is damage done to Kelliher's campaign and the party leaders' reputations by sustained news coverage of their bungling -- and by a less-than-conspicuous housecleaning within the two offices in response.
Kelliher said after the ruling Wednesday that she had taken steps within her campaign to make sure such errors are not repeated. If those steps fall short of a change in personnel, they are bound to be perceived by many Minnesotans as unduly mild.
And, "unduly mild" mop-up now carries a disconcerting promise that possible future situations might also receive "unduly mild" attention and remediation.
That would not be an encouraging impression to allow.