SBE Asseses Fines
By Greg L | 16 February 2007 | Virginia Politics | 9 Comments
Back In July of 2006 BVBL contributor RHarrison provided us with a rather entertaining post about the State Board of Elections losing Steve Chapman’s campaign finance report that was due on July 17th, 2006. I’ve since learned that it in fact wasn’t an oversight on the part of the SBE, but that Mr. Chapman indeed filed his campaign finance report late and has been assessed a fine by the State Board of Elections as a result. In addition, Chapman has failed to file his disclosure which was due on January 16th, 2007 and has been fined for that as well. If Mr. Chapman fails to address this, the matter will be turned over to the Commonwealth Attorney’s office of Paul Ebert which could conceivably mean that Republican Prince William County Board of Supervisor for the Brentsville District, Wally Covington would be pursuing collection actions against Mr. Chapman if the assessed fines are not paid. Small world.Unfortunately Mr. Chapman isn’t the only candidate for office who has been assessed a fine by the State Board of Elections. There’s actualy a long list of mostly political has-beens and Democratic incumbents, with a couple of surprises thrown in to keep it interesting. The following campaigns have been assesed fines for failure to file, or to file in a timely fashion their campaign finance reports in 2006, according to the State Board of Elections:
- Barlow for House of Delegates, incumbent Democrat in the 64th HOD District
- Chacon for Virginia, 97th District HOD, who failed to gather sufficient petition signatures to file as a candidate
- Citizens for David Young, 10th HOD District, defeated by Ward Armstrong in 2005
- Cox for VA, 24th HOD Disrtict, defeated by Ben Cline in 2005
- Dance for Delegate, incumbent Democrat, 63rd HOD District
- Elect John Cog (aka John Coggeshall), the former Amazing One Man Band who ran in the 87th HOD District in 2005
- Elliott 2001, who lost to Viola Baskerville (D-71st HOD) in 2001 and still maintains a campaign account
- Finerfrock for Delegate, who lost a primary in the 41st HOD District to Michael Golden in 2005
- Friends of Bill Mims, former Senator in the 33rd District who is now deputy for Attorney General Bob McDonnell
- Friends of Chris Gregerson, 45th HOD District Republican who lost to David Englin in 2005
- Friends of Ferguson, aide to Eugene Delgaudio who lost in the 36th HOD District in 2005
- Friends of Georgia F. Allen, 83rd HOD Democrat who lost to Leo Wardrup in 2005 despite being frequently confused with a then U.S. Senator
- Friends of Greg Scoma, 44th HOD Republican defeated by Kristin Amundson in 2005
- Friends of Jim Mitchell, who ran against Ken Cucinelli in the 37th Senate District in 2003
- Friends of John Montgomery, 97th HOD District Democrat defeated by Chris Peace in a 2006 Special Election
- Friends of Mark Tate, candidate for 27th Senate District and challenger to Russ Potts
- Friends of Michael Meunier, 39th HOD District challenger to Vivian Watts in 2005
- Friends of Peter DeFur, 56th HOD District loser to William Janis in 2005
- Friends of Steve Chapman
- Glenda G. Parker, independent 44th HOD District candidate who garnered 3% of the vote in 2005
- Hull 2005 Committee, incumbent Democrat in the 38th House District
- Hyland for Delegate, 35th HOD District defeated by Stephen Shannon in 2005
- Jay Test for Delegate, 45th District challenger in 2003
- Joseph B. Obenshain for Senate, 22nd Senate District Primary candidate in 2003
- Kaplan for Delegate, 37th HOD primary candidate in 2003
- Ken Melvin for House of Delegates, Democrat incumbent in the 80th District
- Lambert for Senate, incumbent Democrat in the 9th Senate District
- Lynn Chapman for State Senate, 33rd Senate District primary challenger to Mick Staton who came in third in a four-way firehouse primary in January of 2006
- Marsh for Senate, incumbent Democrat in the 16th Senate District
- Mason for Delegate, 37th HOD District candidate defeated by David Bulova in 2005
- Matt Mueda for Delegate, 46th HOD District candidate defeated by Brian Moran in 2005
- Muse for Delegate, 63rd HOD District Democrat who lost the 2005 primary and raised no money whatsoever in her race
- Saunders for House of Delegates, 75th HOD District candidate who narrowly lost to Roslyn Tyler in 2005
- Shaun Kenney for Delegate, 54th District primary candidate who lost to Robert Orrock in 2005 and currently works for RPV
- Shuemaker for Delegate, 50th HOD District postal worker who ran against Harry Parrish in 2005 in violation of the Hatch Act and was crushed
- Taylor for Delegate, 52nd HOD District lost to Jeff Frederick in 2003
- Tom Bolvin for Delegate, 43rd HOD District candidate defeated by Mark Sickles in 2003
- Wright for Delegate, an independent who ran in the 3rd HOD District.
This is quite a collection. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to be listed in this group, which doesn’t include local candidates which I’ll be diving into in the near future.
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MUCHACHOS,
If Chapman bought a hut in Chiapas with out plumbing(who has plumbing in Chiapas) could he run in the Primary against Comandante ZERO? A nice place for Chapman to move, No? Z… hates Comandante ZERO and would chip in for Chapman’s oneway ticket. Who knows, Chapman might win if he has enough cartuchos, No?
Beware When The Moon Shines Bright!!!
Z
No big suprise with Stevie.
I was NOT fined. A few days after receiving a letter and two e-mails from the Marian Mines affirming they received my reports, I got a letter from Tina Edmonds saying they did not.
I contacted Tina, she spoke to Marian and they retracted their letter. There was a mix-up on the committee ID numbers.
— Donny Ferguson.
“Shuemaker for Delegate, 50th HOD District postal worker who lost to Harry Parrish in 2005 in violation of the Hatch Act “.
You mean the Hatch Act required that he win?
No, that under the Hatch Act it was unlawful for him to run for elected office while still employed by the US Postal Service. Had he posed a serious challenge I’m sure they question would have been raised, but my understanding is that Harry felt a complaint was unnecessary and would have been too big of a sledgehammer to employ.
But thanks for pointing out my inadvertent torture of the english language there.
I knew that, I just thought it was funny…..
(I even sent the guy an e-mail noting the danger he put himself in, he never responded).
Yeah, I gotta admit you’re right. The idea that postal boy would have been legally required to prevail is a pretty amusing concept.
Acutally, Donald Shuemaker was not subject to the Hatch Act because he was not a Federal employee of the Postal Service.
At the time he ran, he was a substitute delivery man with no benefits.
Donald did check with the Postal Office Legal Department to make sure this would not be a conflict.
So, Parrish had no sledgehammer to wield which is why it was never done. Duh!
Of course, Greg L and others could have contacted Shuemaker to find out these facts, but I understand that it more fun to pass out misinformation then verify statements on this blog.
There are liars and then, as we have seen earlier, there are damn liars.
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