INDEPENDENCE — A complaint filed this week with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance alleges an Independence City Council candidate failed to disclose that he paid for a campaign flier, as required by Kentucky law.

        Any candidate who violates that law can be removed from office, if elected.

        Jim Kudera, who is running on the Independence Tomorrow ticket, said he filed the complaint against Councilman Jim Ellison because he prepared campaign literature critical of Mr. Ku dera's slate of candidates, and failed to disclose that on the flier, as required by state law.

        Mr. Kudera said a friend of his was handed the flier by a person who said he was working for Mr. Ellison.

        Mr. Ellison, one of 13 candidates seeking a two-year term on the nonpartisan, six-member council, has denied paying for or distributing the flier, and says he doesn't know who's behind it.

        Mr. Kudera's complaint alleges the flier asks Independence residents to vote for seven people who will provide “responsible city government and a better community.” Mr. Ellison's name is at the top of a list of candidates, which also includes Stephen Feldhaus, Barb and Ike Gabbard, Scott Holton, Rita King and Tom Scharstein.

        The flier describes the Independence Tomorrow group — made up of Mr. Kudera, Jim Bushong, Bob Dodson, Eric Dupps, Chris Moriconi and Dan Wormald — as a “tax team” that favors a new insurance tax and higher property and payroll taxes. Mr. Kudera said that assertion is incorrect.

        Citing board policy, Sarah Jackson, executive director of the state Registry of Election Finance, would not confirm or deny that a complaint had been filed, until the subject of the complaint has a chance to respond.

        In a separate issue, the Gabbards went door to door Friday, passing out copies of a letter from the Recorder Newspapers apologizing for two typographical errors in the couple's political ad running this week.

        The ad lists two incorrect dates pertaining to the transfer of the Independence sewers to Sanitation District No. 1 and expenditures for sanitary sewer lines.

        “I don't want people to think that we're lying, when it was a mistake by the newspaper,” Mrs. Gabbard said. “They may be saying, "Hey, if they lie about this, will they lie about something else?'”

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