| Request that the Board waive a $1,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against Kim Stringfellow, a candidate for Alderman, Ward 1, Division B, City of Crowley, Acadia Parish, in the November 6, 2018, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 61 days late. |
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Kim Stringfellow states that she received a certified letter for a late fee on June 28, 2019, the day before going out of town to visit her mother-in-law who was ill. Upon her return, she immediately phoned the Ethic's office on July 8, 2019 to explain that she had faxed her personal financial disclosure statement on May 16, 2019, one day after the deadline. She now understands that the form she was to complete was a 10-G campaign finance report. She did not realize such a form was due. She works full time as a nurse. She did not have a campaign manager and had very little help with her campaign. She will read the rules closer next time and apologizes for this oversight.
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ELECTION: November 6, 2018
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 61
ASSESSED FEE: $1,000
REPORTS DUE: November 28, 2018
REPORTS FILED: January 28, 2019
ACTIVITY REPORT: $4,080.33 Receipts; $7,071.74 Expenditures; $-0 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE
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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.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Jennifer Land |
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