An education advocacy group that spent more than $365,000 targeting Republican state legislators in Oklahoma for defeat in November's election has acknowledged violating state campaign finance rules and agreed to pay $10,000.
The Oklahoma Ethics Commission announced a settlement agreement on Friday with Oregon-based Stand for Children, Incorporated.
The pro-education group unsuccessfully targeted two Republican state senators — Josh Brecheen of Coalgate and Ralph Shortey of Oklahoma City.
Brecheen was the Senate sponsor of a bill this year to repeal Common Core education standards in math and English that had been adopted by hundreds of Oklahoma school districts.
Both Brecheen and Shortey won re-election anyway.
The director of Stand for Children's Oklahoma chapter Amber England says the group self-reported the violations immediately after they were discovered.
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