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Emails show lieutenant governor's staff engaged in campaign-related matters during business hours

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Emails show Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long enlisted her office staff to help with matters bearing little relevance to her role.

They include renewing her memberships in various women’s groups and making donations to community groups.

Some expenditures were made with campaign funds.

Under Delaware law, state employees are prohibited from engaging in political activity during work hours .

Instead, 109 were never reported in initial finance reports, and the other four , payable to Dana Long , were reported as being made to someone else, according to the review. Hall-Long has maintained that the campaign finance irregularities were simply “bookkeeping errors” involving loans that she made to her campaign but did not report. New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer , her chief rival for the Democratic nomination, has called for a federal investigation into Hall-Long's campaign finances..

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English

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58

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