| Request that the Board waive a $500.00 campaign finance late fee assessed against Cheryl Wooley, a successful candidate for Chief of Police, Town of Many, Sabine Parish, in the March 29, 2025 election, whose10-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 19 days late. |
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Cheryl Wooley requests a waiver and states the following: She was surprised to receive the delinquency notice because she believed the report had been uploaded. She immediately filed. There was no intent to evade the ethics requirements, just technical incompetence on her part. Ms. Wooley takes her responsibilities seriously and apologizes for this mishap.
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ELECTION: March 29, 2025
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-P
DAYS LATE: 19
ASSESSED FEE: $500.00
REPORTS DUE: March 19, 2025
REPORTS FILED: April 7, 2025
ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 Receipts; $-0 Expenditures; $1,482.16 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period. OTHER LATE FILINGS: ONE - PAID
3/20/2021 2022 SUPP (1 days late) - $40.00
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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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