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Docket No. 18-1354
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive $2,000 and $480 campaign finance late fees assessed against Randy S. Nunez, a candidate for St. Bernard Parish Clerk of Court in the October 22, 2011 and October 24, 2015 elections, whose 2016 Supplemental campaign finance disclosure reports were filed 394 and 8 days late, respectively.
Facts:
Randy Nunez states that after the 2015 election, he tried to handle all of the reports on his own, and as you can see by the results of that decision, he didn't have a clue about what he was doing. He states he didn't know he could close out any election by forgiving all of the personal loans he made to his campaign. If he did, he states that he would have forgiven those loans long before because he knew he was not going to repay those loans. Further, he he states he thought he only had to file one report for both elections, not one report for each election. He states he raised very minimal money for each election and funded the vast majority of the campaigns himself.

Comments:
ELECTION: October 22, 2011 and October 24, 2015
TYPES OF REPORT: 2016 Supplemental
DAYS LATE: 394 & 8

ASSESSED FEE: $2,000 & $480


REPORTS DUE: February 15, 2017
REPORTS FILED: March 16, 2018 and February 23, 2017


ACTIVITY REPORT: October 22, 2011 Election: 2016 Suppl - $-0 Receipts; $-0 Expenditures; $-0- Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period. ($75,508.83 Deficit)

October 24, 2015 Election: 2016 Suppl - $-0 Receipts; $4,202.51 Expenditures; $744.89 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.


OTHER LATE FILINGS: 7


Election: 10/20/2007 EDE-P (11 days late) - $600 - PAID


10-G (41 days late)- $2,000 - PAID


10/22/2011 EDE-P (1 days late)- $60 - PAID


10-G (5 days late) - $300 - PAID


2014 SUPP (3 days late) - $180 - PAID

2017 SUPP (29 days late) - $600- NOT PAID


10/24/2015 2017 SUPP (29 days late) - $750- NOT PAID

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.

18:1495.4D(1) If the final report of a candidate for an election, as required by Paragraph (5), (6), or (7)of Subsection B of this Section, shows a deficit or a surplus, the candidate and his treasurer, if any, shall file supplemental reports with the supervisory committee of all information required in R.S. 18:1495.5. Such reports shall be filed annually no later than February fifteenth and shall be complete through the preceding December thirty-first. Such a supplemental report shall be filed each year until a report has been filed which shows no deficit and until any surplus campaign funds have been disposed of in accordance with R.S. 18:1505.2(I). The report on surplus funds shall disclose the disbursement of such funds in the same manner as expenditures are reported.

Recommendations:
Decline to waive for both reports.
Assigned Attorney: Jennifer Land
 
 
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2018-1354 Waiver Request