| Request that the Board waive the $200 campaign finance late fees assessed against St. Tammany DPEC PAC, a political action committee, its committee's chairperson, Gayle Green and treasurer, Marie Wade, whose 2021 October Monthly campaign finance report was filed 1 day late. |
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Marie Wade, treasurer and report preparer for PAC, requests a waiver and states the following:
The St Tammany DPEC hosted its now annual fundraising Gala on Sunday, November 7, 2021 from 6pm to 9pm. She worked a full day on Monday, the 8th after a long, tiresome Gala night and cleanup of the venue. She could not physically do anything or mentally think well enough to properly produce the monthly report. On Tuesday, the 9th after a full day at work, rushed to catch a flight out to Nashville, TN to testify on Wednesday for a custody case regarding her grandson. She brought her laptop thinking she would have time to do the report, but did not. All would have been well but her first flight was delayed, then in Dallas, a mechanical delay and yet another delay for a little more than an hour because of bad weather. She did not land back in New Orleans until after midnight. At this point she was mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausted. She was able to complete and submit report on November 11th.
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TYPE OF REPORT: 2021 October
DAYS LATE: 1
ASSESSED FEE: $200
REPORT DUE: November 10, 2021
REPORT FILED: November 11, 2021
ACTIVITY REPORTED:
June 2019: $3,295.50in Receipts; $630.86 in Disbursements and $2,588.81 Fund on Hand at Close of Reporting Period
OTHER LATE FILINGS: TWO
January 2019 Monthly Report (55 days late) - $3,000 Suspended (REASSESSED)
May 2019 Monthly Report (16 days late) - $2,000 Suspended (REASSESSED)
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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. 18:1484.(2)(b). Each candidate for any other public office shall file reports of contributions in excess of two hundred dollars in the aggregate during the aggregating period.
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Decline to waive. No modification to reassessment.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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