(WA) State Agency: Alleged GOP campaign violations should be investigated

[TechBear_Seattle]

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

By GREGORY ROBERTS
P-I REPORTER

The King County Republican Party should be investigated by the state attorney general for multiple apparent violations of campaign-finance reporting requirements, a state agency staff report says.

The state Public Disclosure Commission, which enforces the requirements, meets Thursday and will consider its staff's recommendation to forward the case to the Attorney General Rob McKenna.

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In response to a Nov. 30 letter from Bellevue lawyer Richard Pope, the PDC reviewed filings from the GOP for the 2006 election year. Pope, a frequent, unsuccessful candidate for judgeships and other elected offices, said the party had missed deadlines for reporting expenditures and contributions. He also said the Republicans had failed to list the occupations and employers for donors of $100 or more, as required by law.

The PDC investigation found that the party had missed the deadlines for more than 100 reports, which were filed anywhere from five to 306 days late. The reports covered nearly $170,000 in contributions and other money received and more than $180,000 in expenditures. For the year, the party took in more than $342,000 in total contributions and receipts and spent nearly $358,000.

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[MrModerate]

1. Hmmmm . . . 'Lican ineptitude extends even to local accountants . . .

And clerks. I'm not surprised. To be so wrong on the "big things" suggest similar slovenliness on the "little things."

[ShockediSay]

2. Building "a permanent Republican majority" is what it's all about

in comments attributed to Karl Rove and endorsed on radio this morning by Tom DeLay

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8991717

Isn't Putin building a "permanent majority " in the former Russian democracy?

[Diane R]

3. Fat chance. The State AG is a partisan republican.