Tuesday, December 13th, 2005...11:16 am
Ableser Settlement
Dennis Quinlan, Ed Ableser’s campaign manager, read my previous entry on Ableser’s troubles and wanted to point out to me that he never actually violated the spending limits, and that the questions that arose were because of an error in the filing.
He also pointed out that Ableser has reached a settlement with the Clean Elections Commission, effective today. It reads, in part:
8. Respondent agrees to pay to the Commission, within 30 days of the date of this Settlement Agreement, a civil penalty in the amount of $1,566.03, which is the sum of the reimbursements for expenditures that were not reported on the same day the expenditures were made.
9. Respondent acknowledges that the Commission has the authority to fine Respondent ten times the amount by which expenditures exceeded the applicable limits pursuant to A.R.S. §16-942(B), which is $15,660.30.
10. The Commission declines to impose the maximum penalty based on the following reasons:
• Respondent cooperated fully with the audit, investigation and resolution of this matter;
• Absence of prior enforcement action before the Commission
• Respondent made a good faith effort to comply with the Act and attended a Commission-sponsored training class on November 12, 2003;
and
• Respondent did not seek or gain an advantage from the violations outlined above because at all relevant times his campaign had adequate funds to make the payments directly from his campaign account.
Funny. Nothing in there blaming some conspiracy of Planned Parenthood or the Governor. Nothing claiming that the bipartisan commission is biased. Nothing in there claiming that no one has the authority to tell him how to use public funds
Wow, he’s taking full responsibility for his mistakes. In other words, nothing like David Burnell Smith.
2 Comments
December 13th, 2005 at 12:16 pm
The aforementioned A-Rod announced for Congress today in CD - 8. Sorry to beat you to the punch yet again - but keep trying champ….
December 13th, 2005 at 12:25 pm
Also, to keep beating you to the punch Downing has decided not to run for Congress and is instead lobbying the sups. to get the State Senate seat.
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