Breazeale: I reimbursed campaign

Will Breazeale says he paid his campaign back for clothes.

The former Congressional candidate, who was criticized last week by a campaign finance group for using $1,000 of campaign money to buy clothing, said that he reimbursed the campaign after his treasurer told him the expense did not meet Federal Election Commission guidelines.

"I wrote a personal check to refund my campaign for $1,000 and instructed my treasurer to self-disclose our action to the FEC," he wrote the Fayetteville Observer in an e-mail.

He added that he was confident the FEC would dismiss the complaint, which came from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. 

The group had complained about spending by several other Congressional candidates as well as Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. 

Breazeale lost to longtime Democratic Congressman Mike McIntyre in November.