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Colbert offering $500K to pay for SC GOP primary (AP)

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FILE- This Thursday, June 30, 2011 file photo shows comedian Stephen Colbert as he appears before the Federal Election Commission in Washington. Colbert says he will pay half a million dollars to help fund South Carolina's first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary. The Palmetto State native wrote in an op-ed Thursday in The State newspaper in Columbia that his super PAC will bridge the gap after state Republicans refused to contribute anything above candidates' filing fees. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

AP - Comedian Stephen Colbert is offering to pay half a million dollars to help subsidize South Carolina's first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary, as state officials struggle to pay for it, but there's doubt whether it would even be legal.




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