| Request that the Board waive the $880 campaign finance late fee assessed against Alonzo "Lonnie" Shupe, a candidate for Council Member for the City of Denham Springs, Livingston Parish, in the November 4, 2014 election, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 22 days late. |
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Alonzo Shupe requests a waiver and states the following:
As a first time candidate, he was unfamiliar with the forms and the process, and was unclear on what forms applied. He received no contributions in any amount from anyone. He believed this made the campaign finance disclosure form unnecessary. Once it was brought to his attention, he filed the report promptly. Another factor that he believes has merit is he has no recollection of ever being contacted that there was a $40.00 late fee, and in addition, that fees would be assessed over time.
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ELECTION: November 4, 2014
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 22
ASSESSED FEE: $880
REPORTS DUE: November 26, 2014
REPORTS FILED: December 18, 2014
ACTIVITY REPORT:10-G: $-0 in Receipts; $379.91 in Expenditures; $-0 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE
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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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Reduce to $400 based on Rule 1205C; decline to waive.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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