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Dillingham: Fines are ‘clerical error’
Former Butler County commission candidate Rawnica Dillingham said fines totaling tens of thousands of dollars being levied by the Ohio Elections Commission are due to a “clerical error” at the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office.
Dillingham said her political action committee, Mental Health Matters, was discontinued more than a year ago, so didn’t need to file 2008 reports.
She said the PAC was opened five years ago when Mental Health Matters, a non-profit Dillingham runs, was planning to get involved in mental health levy campaigns.
“We have never used it (the PAC),” Dillingham said, and finance forms on file with the Secretary of State’s office show that it never collected or spent a cent.
Dillingham said the past-due penalties from 2007 are being handled.
If Dillingham does not pay the penalties, Richter said, “eventually these matters would be referred to the (Ohio) Attorney General’s Office for collection by (them).”
Dillingham mounted a two-year campaign to unseat County Commission Charles Furmon and lost in last year’s Republican primary.
The campaign was expensive. Her campaign finance forms state she took out a loan for more than $42,000 and her committee, Friends of Rawnica Dillingham, owes $12,500 in debts.
Dillingham is now owner of V’s Nightclub in Hamilton.
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