| Request that the Board reconsider its decision to decline to waive a $600 campaign finance late fee assessed against Pammela Lattier, a successful candidate for City Judge, City Court, Election Dist. 2, Div. C, City of Shreveport, Bossier Parish, in the November 3, 2020 election, whose 30-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 10 days late. |
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Pammela Lattier reasserts her reasons as originally stated in her waiver request as follows:
The late filing was a complete oversight on her part. In prior years, her husband served as her campaign manager and report preparer; however, they have since divorced and he no longer assists her. She contacted both her ex-husband and the Clerk of Court where she qualified to determine if there were any reports that she was responsible for submitting. She was erroneously informed that because she was re-elected without opposition and had not received any campaign contributions, she did not have to file any reports. She promptly filed the report when she received the delinquency notice. She was unopposed in the election.
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ELECTION: November 3, 2020
TYPES OF REPORT: 30-P
DAYS LATE: 10
ASSESSED FEE: $600
REPORTS DUE: October 5, 2020
REPORTS FILED: October 15, 2020
ACTIVITY REPORT:$150.00 Receipts; $150.00 Expenditures; $-0 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period. (Qualifying fee)
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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Reaffirm decision to decline to waive.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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