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Agenda Item
Docket No. 20-091
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $560 campaign finance late fee assessed against Mark Pope, a candidate for City Council Member, District 1, City of Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose 10-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 14 days late.
Facts:
Mark Pope request a waiver and states the following:

He has never run for public office, and he was not aware of the overwhelming amount of work, scheduling, coordinating, and commitments of time involved in a run for public office. He knew the due date of 10-P report, but it was submitted late because he was made aware of a smear campaign that was being planned against him to tie him and other candidates for public office to the Klu Klux Klan. He became enraged and his emotions overwhelmed him. He prepared and submitted the report within a week of receiving the letter from Ethics Board.

Comments:
ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-P
DAYS LATE: 14
ASSESSED FEE: $560
REPORTS DUE: October 2, 2019
REPORTS FILED: October 16, 2019

ACTIVITY REPORT: $5,075.00 Receipts; $-0 Expenditures; $12,049.01 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.

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.

18:1495.4D(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.
Assigned Attorney: Jennifer Land
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2020-091 - Waiver Request