| Request that the Board waive a $840 campaign finance late fee assessed against Robert "Bob" Bell, a candidate for State Senator, 16th Senatorial District, EBR Parish, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose 30-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 14 days late. |
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Robert Bell requests a waiver and states the following:
This was his first election. The $840 fine is disproportionate as it is well over half of his monthly pay for his Navy retirement after 32 years of service and almost one-third of the money raised by his campaign over 14 months. Almost all of his campaign he was under the threshold amount of donations to be required file reports. He was hampered by serious health situations. Finally, he was at a loss to actually get reports filed online as specified because of technical difficulties.
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ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 30-P
DAYS LATE: 14
ASSESSED FEE: $840
REPORTS DUE: September 12, 2019
REPORTS FILED: September 26, 2019
ACTIVITY REPORT: $2,809.80 Receipts; $2,767.69 Expenditures; $42.11 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: 10-G--$600 (not paid); 10-P--$2,000 (not paid)
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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: |
Charles Reeves |
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