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Complaining about ethics of ag candidate
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Editor: Back in June, then Republican candidate Darwin Carter of Alma, filed an ethics complaint against CEO/Lobbyist Gary Black for failure to disclose the use of his office as CEO/Lobbyist for the Georgia Agribusiness Council (not-for-profit) to run for Commissioner of Agriculture. Additionally, Carter charged that Black's lobbying firm, Georgia Agribusiness Council (GAC) is a nonprofit 501c6 corporation and according to the IRS, should pay taxes on their extensive partisan political work. Carter said, "They have failed to do so…they are breaking the law.
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