| Request that the Board waive a $240 campaign finance late fee assessed against Sherri LaGrone, a candidate for Clerk of Court, Pointe Coupee Parish, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose 30-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 4 days late. |
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Sherri LaGrone states the following:
She filed a report on the correct date but did not realize until 4 days later that it was filed incorrectly. A friend that was helping with her campaign and is familiar with filing the reports informed her that the report could not be seen on the State's website. She logged back in and then made a phone call to the Board of Ethics. During that call is when she realized that an affidavit need to be submitted in order to file report electronically. It took 2 days to find an available notary. This is her first time to ever run for an elected office so she was not familiar with how everything works.
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ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 30-P
DAYS LATE: 4
ASSESSED FEE: $240
REPORTS DUE: September 12, 2019
REPORTS FILED: September 16, 2019
ACTIVITY REPORT: $2,305.55 Receipts; $2,051.55 Expenditures; $254 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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