Kitchen has hearing before Ohio Elections Commission on Thursday

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Elections Commission is scheduled Thursday to have a hearing to consider sanctions against DeMaine Kitchen, a failed 2013 Youngstown mayoral candidate, for taking an improper $3,900 cash campaign contribution and not reporting it in a timely fashion.

Kitchen didn’t show up at a June 26 preliminary review of this issue by the commission in Columbus to respond to the complaint. That led the commission to schedule the upcoming full hearing.

Kitchen said Tuesday that he will be at the hearing and that the matter has been

resolved.

Kitchen received a $4,000 cash contribution on Oct. 27, 2013, from then-Mayor Charles Sammarone, who is now city council president. At the time of the contribution, Kitchen was serving as Sammarone’s chief of staff/secretary.

State law doesn’t permit cash contributions of any amount more than $100.

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