Dana Kadey

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State Senate candidate Dana Kadey has been ordered to reimburse the state for personal purchases made with public campaign funds.

As first reported last week by PolitickerME.com, purchases made by the independent candidate from Princeton -- including a GPS unit, cooler, truck cap and roof rack -- were under review by the Maine Ethics Commission.

On Monday, they voted to require Kadey to repay $2,000 to the Maine Clean Election Act fund.

The Maine Ethics Commission’s staff is questioning more than $2,000 in purchases by independent state Senate candidate Dana Kadey of Princeton, and recommending that he reimburse the state.

According to his campaign finance reports, Kadey used Maine Clean Elections Act funds to buy a GPS device for $414, a cooler for his vehicle for $188 and a truck cap and roof rack for $1,363 plus $109 in travel to buy it. They were paid for out of the $21,005 in public funds he received for his campaign. The GPS device was his first purchase of the campaign.

This year Kadey is running against Raye and Karen Johnson (D-Machias). The district includes all of Washington County.

This his second run for state Senate. In a four-way race in 2006, he got 13 percent of the vote. Sen. Kevin Raye (R-Perry) won with 59 percent of the vote.