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Agenda Item
Docket No. 18-683
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive the $1,200 campaign finance late fee assessed against the Women on the Move, a political action committee, and its committee's President, Roberta Brown, Vice President, Sheila Williams,Vice President, Margie Thomas, and Treasurer, Joyce Harrell, for the March 24, 2018 Election, whose Special (48 hour) campaign finance report was filed 6 days late.
Facts:
Roberta Brown, Chairperson for Women On The Move, (WotM), states that the organization has undergone a change in two key positions on the Board of Directors. She states that both, Ms. Joyce Harrell, Treasurer, and Ms. Sheila Williams, Vice President, resigned their respective positions with the organization. She states that those two key positions were responsible for the preparation and timely submission of campaign finance disclosure reports. Due to unforeseen circumstances, she states the transition period was much longer than anyone expected, thus causing the late filing of campaign finance disclosure reports. She states that they have taken corrective actions. In the past, she states WotM has never been late with filing of campaign finance disclosure reports and has been in compliance with all the Louisiana Board of Ethics' rules and regulations governing PAC campaign finance.

Comments:
TYPE OF REPORT: Special (48 hour)
DAYS LATE: 6
ASSESSED FEE: $1200
REPORT DUE: March 8, 2018

REPORT FILED: March 14, 2018

ACTIVITY REPORTED: $19,000 in Receipts, $4604.624 in Disbursements


OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE

Law:
18:1505.4.A(1) Any candidate, the treasurer or chairman of a political committee, or any other person required to file any reports under this Chapter, who knowingly fails to file or who knowingly fails to timely file any such reports as are required by this Chapter may be assessed a civil penalty for each day until such report is filed. 18:1484.(2)(b). Each candidate for any other public office shall file reports of contributions in excess of two hundred dollars in the aggregate during the aggregating period.
Recommendations:
Decline to waive.
Assigned Attorney: Jennifer Land
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2018-683 Waiver Request