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Agenda Item
Docket No. 20-390
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $240 campaign finance late fee assessed against Erin Feys Powell, a candidate for State Representative, 89th Representative District, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose Special campaign finance disclosure report was filed 4 days late.
Facts:
Erin Feys Powell requests a waiver and states the following:

This is the first time she has ever run for public office and handled the campaign alone. Each time a report was due she called the Ethics Board for clarification and had some help from a CPA friend who had never done election reports either. She made every effort to do the right thing as evidenced by her many calls to the Ethics office. This fine will put undue financial pressure on her. She is retired from the St. Tammany school system and survives on teacher's retirement. She cashed in about $5000 in retirement money to run for state representative. The money in question was given to her from her brother-in-law Patrick Feys, a retired roofer.

Comments:
ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: SPECIAL
DAYS LATE: 4
ASSESSED FEE: $240
REPORTS DUE: October 7, 2019
REPORTS FILED: October 22, 2019

ACTIVITY REPORT: 1/4/2019 Contribution from Patrick Feys for $2500. Contribution was identified on 10-G report,


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: Charles Reeves
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2020-390 - CF Waiver Request Erin Feys Powell