| Request that the Board waive the $60 and $600 campaign finance late fees assessed against Robert Poole, a candidate for State Representative, 71st Representative District in the October 12, 2019 election, whose 10-P & 10-G campaign finance disclosure reports were filed 1 & 13 days late, respectively. |
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Mr. Robert Poole requests a waiver and states the following:
He spent a total of about $2,600 of which approximately $1,600 was personal money. He knew that there was one filing required after his defeat in the primary. He incorrectly assumed it was the Special Report which he filed. He complied, as he saw it. He is a single father of four, a son who is a veteran of the U. S. Marines and three daughters who are minors living at home with him. He is an active member in his church and community. He is also a full time student at New Orleans Theological Seminary which he pays full price tuition. When he has a moment he works. He owns a small business selling specialty products to a limited number of industrial customers.
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ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-P & 10-G
DAYS LATE: 1 & 13
ASSESSED FEE: $60 & $600
REPORTS DUE: October 2, 2019 & November 6, 2019
REPORTS FILED: October 3, 2019 & November 19, 2019
ACTIVITY REPORT: 10-P: $-0 Receipts; $-0 Expenditures; $127.71 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
10-G: $-0 Receipts; $8.00 Expenditures and $119.71 Funds on Hand at the Close of the Reporting Period
OTHER LATE FILINGS: ONE- PAID
10/2/2010 Election: EDE-P (1 day late)-$40
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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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