Following up on the resignation of Misha Fredericks as campaign treasurer for Joel Tyner’s congressional campaign in New York’s 19th District, it’s probably a good idea for candidates to take away the filing keys from disgruntled former staffers, or else they might do stuff like this:

This decision was not made in haste.  Rather, I had struggled 
with the decision for weeks often voicing my concerns with Mr. Tyner.
When I filed my first FEC report as Mr. Tyner's treasurer - the April 2012 
Quarterly - I informed Mr. Tyner that there was over a $3,000 discrepancy 
between his bank account balance and the cash-on-hand reported to the 
FEC.  He explained that he had not kept many receipts or had lost them.  
This baffled me because Mr. Tyner is a five term County Legislator in 
Dutchess County.  As such, he has years of experience with financial 
disclosure laws in New York State that, like the FEC, require him to maintain
and disclose all money raised and spent.  I had deep reservations about 
remaining on as his treasurer as I realized I would never be able to reconcile
 his bank account with the FEC reports I filed.

followed by:

I have been informed by others working as volunteers on the campaign that
 they had given Mr. Tyner over $600 in receipts to be given to me.  I never 
received them and therefore was unable to report those expenditures to the
 FEC though cash was given to volunteers by Mr. Tyner to reimburse them. 
 These volunteers have quit feeling demoralized and deeply concerned that 
it may appear as though they used the campaign money for personal 
expenditures when indeed it was used for voter outreach in many countries 
throughout the 19th congressional district.

Sounds like everything is going fine, then.

11 months ago
  1. campaignfinance posted this