| Request that the Board waive the $1,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against Emma Luster Shepard, an unsuccessful candidate for BESE, District 4, in the March 20, 2021 election, whose 30-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 13 days late. |
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Emma Luster Shepard requests a waiver and states the following:
She truly is sorry. She did not understand she was required to file once she withdrew from the campaign. She is retired and $1,000.00 is a financial hardship at the age of 72. Once she qualified, she thought things through more clearly and withdrew from the race. It was hard for her to pay $900 to qualify and realized she would not be able to afford the campaign. She said the ice storm hit her hard and she had damage to her home. Insurance is paying only a fraction of the costs for repairs.
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ELECTION: March 20, 2021
TYPES OF REPORT: 30-P
DAYS LATE: 13
ASSESSED FEE: $1,300, reduced to $1,000 pursuant to Rule 1205C
REPORTS DUE: February 18, 2021
REPORTS FILED: March 3, 2021
ACTIVITY REPORT: 30-P: $-0 in Receipt; $-0 in Expenditures and $-0 Funds on Hand 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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Decline to waive; offer payment plan.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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