- Democratic candidate Cindy Burbank paid the filing fee for Legal Marijuana NOW Party candidate Mike Marvin in the U.S. Senate race in Nebraska.
LINCOLN — In a U.S. Senate race marked by allegations of planted candidates, an unusual thing happened on the filing deadline day: Democratic candidate Cindy Burbank paid the $1,740 filing fee for Legal Marijuana NOW Party candidate Mike Marvin, state records obtained by the Nebraska Examiner show.
Payment records from the Nebraska Secretary of State’s Office indicate “Cynthia J Burbank” paid Marvin’s filing fee via a check at the close of business on the last day for candidates to file, at 5:03 p.m. March 2, via an “agent drop off.” That’s a way of saying a person besides Marvin or the Post Office dropped off the check.
Burbank had been at the filing office at the Secretary of State’s Office in Lincoln that day to file for herself at 4:43 p.m., using the same name. She filed her own paperwork to run about 13 minutes after Democrat William Forbes filed and paid for his own fee at 4:30 p.m., with a check, state records show.
Marvin’s final day filing as a candidate came just as the office was closing, nearly two months after the other marijuana candidate, Earl Starkey. He filed at 11:53 a.m. on Jan. 8…