| Request that the Board waive a $800 campaign finance late fee assessed against Shawon Bernard, a candidate for BESE, District 2, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose 2019 Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report was filed 8 days late. |
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Shawon Bernard requests a waiver and states the following:
The campaign had a minimal deficient amount of funds with an outstanding personal loan. In fact, the 2019 Supplemental filing was a procedural forgiveness of a personal loan she made to the campaign. There were no expenditures during this period other than her forgiving the loan to close out the campaign. The time frame of the department sending out the notice, her receiving it and submitting the supplemental report included the long weekend of the Mardi Gras holiday. A letter that usually takes 1-2 days from Baton Rouge to New Orleans to arrive resulted in an unusual increase of 5 days for delivery. Upon immediately receiving the Notice of Delinquency, she completed and submitted the report.
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ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 2019 SUPPL
DAYS LATE: 8
ASSESSED FEE: $800
REPORTS DUE: February 18, 2020
REPORTS FILED: February 26, 2020
ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 Receipts; $202.97 Expenditures; $-0 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: ONE (1)- PAID
10-P (1 day late)- $100
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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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