| Request that the Board waive a $1,400.00 campaign finance late fee assessed against Working America (OP) in the October 14, 2023 election, whose 10-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 7 days late. |
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Patricia A. Fiori, attorney for the Working America PAC, requests a waiver and states the following: The amount spent on independent expenditure SMS communications is $480. She believes that the $75 for personnel costs technically constitutes an overhead cost rather than express advocacy expenditures, which means it did not trigger the $500.00 reporting threshold. The reported $555.00 payment exceeds the threshold, but she believes the $1,400 penalty is disproportionately large as it is triple the amount of the $480 expenditure. The PAC works diligently to stay in compliance and ensures all reports will be filed timely in the future. Please waive or reduce the assessed late fee.
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ELECTION: October 14, 2023
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-P
DAYS LATE: 7
ASSESSED FEE: $1,400
REPORTS DUE: October 4, 2023
REPORTS FILED: October 11, 2023
ACTIVITY REPORT: $555.03 in Receipts; $555.03 in Expenditures; $-0 Funds 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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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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