| Request that the Board waive the $1,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against John Mason, an unsuccessful candidate for PSC, District 1, in the November 3, 2020 election, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 10 days late. |
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John Mason requests a waiver and states the following:
He did not think he had to file the report. He thought only a supplemental report was required since he did not advance past the primary. He ran a true grass roots campaign and only raised approximately $3,000. He said he would like to point out that the letter informing him that the report was due took 6 days to be delivered which added $600 to the fine and if the Ethics staff would have sent an email on the date of the letter it would have saved the campaign money.
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ELECTION: November 6, 2018
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 10
ASSESSED FEE: $1000
REPORTS DUE: November 25, 2020
REPORTS FILED: December 5. 2020
ACTIVITY REPORT: $67.37 Receipts; $-0 Expenditures; $485.17 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: ONE
10/12/2019 Election: 30-P (9 days late)- $540
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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.
LAC 52:1205(C) states if a report is filed more than 10 days late and the amount of activity on the report is less than the amount of the late fee to be assessed, the staff may reduce the late fee to the amount of activity or 10 times the per-day penalty, whichever is greater.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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