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Dillingham’s PAC faces steep fine from state
Fines are adding up to tens of thousands of dollars for the political action committee of would-be Butler County Commissioner Rawnica Dillingham, according to the Ohio Elections Commission.
The commission fined Dillingham’s PAC, Mental Health Matters, $17,500 and counting Thursday, Jan. 22.
The fine goes up $100 each day it goes unpaid, according to Elections Commission Executive Director Phil Richter.
The penalty is for missing a July 31 campaign filing required by state law and is in addition to two campaign filings missed in July 2007 and January 2008. Fines from those filings are growing $25, meaning they already total more than $20,000.
The commission did not impose penalties for two other filings missed, but did increase the size of the most recent fine because of a pattern of ignoring deadlines, Richter said.
“That’s typically what the commission will do when faced with someone who will not file campaign finance reports,” Richter said.
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.
Former filings on the Secretary of State Web site seem to show that the PAC never took in or spent a cent.
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