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PDC imposes base $150 penalty for dozen candidates who missed C4 filings
Summary
The commission found violations for a group of 12 candidates who did not file required post-primary C4 reports before the hearing and imposed the staff $150 base penalty where no mitigating circumstances were identified.
At the Public Disclosure Commission's brief adjudicative proceeding, staff read a list of PDC cases involving 2023 candidates who failed to file or timely file post-primary C4 reports and did not accept the statement-of-understanding option prior to the hearing. Case numbers read into the record included 151222 (Bobby Tucker), 151224 (Nicholas Green), 151250 (Asuka Jacks), 151248 (Jessica Iliff), 151260 (Martin Miguel Elliott), 151262 (Abraham Meyer), 151265 (Robert Roboto), 151268 (James Shepherd), 151269 (name uncertain in transcript), 151270 (Kelly Stevens), 151225 (Christopher McCoy) and 151243 (John Frazier).
The chair told commissioners there was no staff-identified mitigating information distinguishing these matters from one another and signaled intent to find violations. "I will find violations from all of these individuals... a $150 base penalty against all because there's no mitigating or, extenuating, aggravating circumstances," the chair said. Commissioners accepted staff's recommendation to treat the listed matters as a group and resolve them with the base penalty amount.
Why it matters: the action shows the commission using a grouped, streamlined approach to resolve multiple similar filing violations at once rather than hearing each matter individually.
