Ethics board dismisses two complaints over missing treasurer information on campaign flyers

The City of Santa Fe Ethics Review Board dismissed two complaints alleging campaign fundraising flyers lacked required treasurer identification, ruling the filings did not state legally sufficient facts to proceed. The board said the complaints failed to show, on their face, that the material met the code definition of campaign material (including the requirement that material be disseminated to more than 100 people) and raised procedural defects in the complaint form used. Board members said they were reluctant to hold nonlawyer complainants to hypertechnical standards, but several commissioners agreed the filings here were too vague to satisfy the board's preliminary threshold for probable cause. "I don't see any indication that the flyer came from the campaign," Member Miller said during the hearing, noting the complaint did not allege who disseminated the flyer or that it reached…