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March 15, 2011 08:30 PM UTC
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It appears it’s been a little longer than 2010 since Ontero filed a finance report. It appears they haven’t filed one since they first registered with the state in 2007.
We assume that’s what the $50,000 figure is based on? We’ll edit to reflect.
From Bob’s article,
So, if I’m reading this right, the total they owe could be much higher, if SoS factors in 2007, 2008 and 2009?
Tipton’s not digging them out of this hole.
Unless Gessler makes it go away.
The total theoretical fine is north of $300,000. State law changed in 2010 to give the SoS enforcement responsibility over county parties; prior to that it rested with the county clerk. As best I can tell, the Otero County clerk never sent a delinquency or penalty notice to the county Republicans.
The Otero GOP, with help from the state party,has begun filing reports, starting with the 2008 filings. But all six reports filed yesterday show zero donations or expenditures. This is likely just a placeholder to stop the fine meter from running.
Early version of my latest story here; more details tomorrow.
http://www.coloradoan.com/arti…
And wow. That’s a serious sum of money. Would there be any leeway for that, since they never received a delinquency or penalty notice prior to 2010?
Which they have made no effort to do.
Their failure to file is the fault of Bernie Buescher and “unionized State workers,” remember?
anybody but the Otero County Republican Party.
I honestly don’t believe they’ve been aware of any fines until I contacted them last week. The delinquency notices were going to an ex-chair (because the party failed to update its registered agent with the SoS) who apparently wasn’t passing them along to anyone. That chair, by the way, would have been responsible for the 2008 filings that never got done. There’s no sign the Otero County clerk sent any delinquency or fine notices in 2008. I don’t even know that the clerk will levy a fine now.
The 2010 fines will be decided by Gessler’s office. The party can’t seek a waiver until it files its overdue reports, which hasn’t happened as of a couple of minutes ago.
I do believe the treasurer must sign the reports representing that they are true and accurate under penalty of perjury.
Putting zeroes is knowingly putting false information. I’m not a lawyer, but my guess is that was a dumb move.
Because the reports they are amending were true and accurate to the best of the filer’s knowledge at the time they were filed, and then new information came along or a mistake was discovered and an amendment is filed.
They do not, however, get filed fraudulently and knowingly false under penalty of perjury in order to get out of paying a fine.
“Take Back Our Schools?”
back into its coffers if they ever got serious about collecting fines from all of these groups and individuals.
circumventing TABOR to raise their taxes right?
They might even still be able to give some of that $4 million back to the general fund if they collect on some of these large fines.
The SOS (yeah, I know not this SOS) has already settled a $500,000 fine for roughly $8,500.
Let’s say Gessler decides to get tough on this egregious violation — let’s make it a punitive $.02 on the dollar — that $300,000 fine should net the Colorado coffers a cool $6,000.
Now that’s the kind of money that Tipton could raise — even in La Junta.
It’s called “precedent” people — counting down the days to the announcement.
for being die hard conservatives who don’t follow the rules. That is just chump change for the brothers.
It doesn’t exactly inspire confidence that these folks are fiscally responsible people who are law abiding citizens.
Of course if it was a Democratic group it would be throw the book at those voter fraud scum. There would have been all kinds of wringing of hands over how horrible Democrats are to ignore the rules.
We first noticed, at least in detail, what a confused and disorganized collection of incompetents is the Otero County GOP about this time last year. Reyher’s shrill defense of the indefensible is hardly anything new. What was surprising, back then, was that the state and national GOP organizations defended Reyher and her band of political buffoons. Well … considering the gubernatorial candidate(s) put forward by the state party, perhaps it isn’t all that surprising. Meanwhile, this one:
http://lajuntablog.blogspot.co…
has some links within that give a pretty good background on the sorry state of GOP affairs in Otero County.
What problems do the Larimer Dems have?
They aren’t in violation of anything because they file their reports on time.