| Request that the Board waive the $400 campaign finance late fee assessed against Christine Tharpe, a successful candidate for Member of School Board, District 8, Caddo Parish, in the November 3, 2020 election, whose 2020 Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report was filed 10 days late. |
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Christine Tharpe requests a waiver and states the following:
She states she filed the report in time and sent copies of the report to the office as proof. All other reports were filed in a timely manner and can be seen online with the correct dates. She asks that the $400 charge be reversed.
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ELECTION: November 3, 2020
TYPES OF REPORT: 2020 SUPPL
DAYS LATE: 10
ASSESSED FEE: $400
REPORTS DUE: February 18, 2021
REPORTS FILED: March 1, 2021
ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 Receipts; $25.62 Expenditures; $61.32 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: ONE
10-G (15 days late) - $600- Payment Plan Balance of $500
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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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