Monroerising Contacts State Board of Elections On Monroe County Legislator Richard Beebe’s Failure to Report Campaign Finances
Sorry it took so long, inlaws in from out of town, sick kids and a demanding boss, but I finally finished my research on Richard Beebe’s campaign finance reporting violations. Here is the text of what Monroerising sent to the State Board of Elections.
In reviewing the campaign disclosure reports of Monroe County Legislator Richard Beebe, it is apparent that he did not file required disclosure forms during his campaign. He filed the 11 day pre-general and the 27 day post-general filings on January 15, 2008 — 2 1/2 months after they were legally required.
A review of his 27 day post-general filing shows that there were three contributions not reported with in the 24 hour period as required by state law. These donations total approximately $15,000, almost six times the amount he reported for the entire campaign before the election. Beebe filed these reports only after our website brought attention to this fact.
These actions violate the letter and spirit of the campaign finance law. Also Legislator Beebe and candidate Ted Nixon (Monroe County Legislator) both advertised for months on the website rochesterturning.com — yet neither show any expenses for this advertising or an inkind donation for this advertising. Given Beebe’s track record, I am requesting that you investigate this and the deliberate non-filing of the required forms in a timely manner.
We will keep you posted!
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Way to be Cinci, hopefully this whole ordeal will be dealt with accordingly and that some politicians will learn that they cannot dodge the law
Depending on the outcome, I wonder what else could befall Mr. Beebe? I mean, besides the monetary fines and legal judgements, could he be made to resign his position for ignoring the election law?
I still don’t get it. Why not just file the reports according to the law? Was whatever he wanted to hide, if anything, that bad that he thought it would have lost him the election if it was exposed?
just came across your site. seems like good stuff. don’t know if there’s a good explanation but if not, this stuff makes me sick. beebe’s got some event going on tonight. wonder what he’d say if he was handed a copy of this with all the cameras rolling? not being aggressive here but it’d be his chance to explain things. hmmm.