| Reconsideration request that the Board waive a $640 campaign finance late fee assessed against Chad Bordelon, a candidate for Mayor, City of Mandeville in the July 11, 2020 election, whose 2019 Annual campaign finance disclosure report was filed 16 days late. |
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Chad Bordelon requests a waiver and states the following:
He was not instructed to complete the 2019 annual report until after he filed the 30-P report that was due at the beginning of March. The annual report was completed within the same day he was contacted about his previous report being incorrect. The reason it was incorrect is because it included all the information for the 2019 Annual report. Prior to the due date for this report, COVID numbers began to rise. Restrictions were being put up for businesses in Louisiana. His business was shut down for 4 months and he was forced to figure out how to pay bills and his employees without any income for his business.
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ELECTION: July 11, 2020
TYPES OF REPORT: 2019 ANNUAL
DAYS LATE: 16
ASSESSED FEE: $640
REPORTS DUE: February 18, 2020
REPORTS FILED: March 5, 2020
REPORT ACTIVITY: $26,120.00 in Receipts; $16,863.05 in Expenditures; $9,256.95 Funds at 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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Affirm prior decision to decline to waive.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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