Q&A
CFB's consideration of campaign responsiveness to requests for information
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Paul Seamus Ryan explains how the CFB determines whether a candidate is in compliance with the requirement to furnish requested information, focusing on the statement review process and its impact on matching fund eligibility.
- The CFB considers all relevant facts and information, including responsiveness to statement reviews and completeness of disclosure reports
- Statement reviews typically provide deadlines for campaigns to respond if they want contributions matched in upcoming payment dates
- Campaigns that fail to respond by the deadline may still establish eligibility for contributions to be matched in future payment dates
- The process is designed to encourage timely responses while allowing for flexibility in establishing eligibility
Lincoln Restler
0:43:59
So the board also, I presume, looks at responses to statement reviews or lack of responsiveness to or timeliness of responses, lack of responses to statement reviews.
0:44:08
How many requests are not responded to is is a part of that decision of whether the, campaign is in compliance with that provision?
Paul Seamus Ryan
0:44:19
Yes.
0:44:19
I mean, the board considers all relevant facts and information, whether or not you've responded, whether you filed disclosure reports, whether those disclosure reports have been complete.
0:44:29
The, I'll say one thing about the statement review.
0:44:32
So, typically, a statement review is not a firm, demand for documents or information.
0:44:39
By contrast, typically, a statement review is structured as, you filed we're in the midst of you know, on the tail end of the statement review process, as you all know, for the early October filing deadline.
0:44:49
Month later, we sent out statement reviews, and now statement review responses are coming in from you and your treasurer's due date is the January reporting deadline, but we advise campaigns, if we raised any questions in our statement review of your early October filing regarding a contribution that you wanna get matched on December 16th, you need to respond to us by November 22nd, a week and a half ago.
0:45:11
That was the deadline for our receipt of any information that we will take into consideration when making payment determinations on December 16th, or the board will rely on to make those determinations.
0:45:22
So when it comes to these statement reviews, you ask specifically about them, it really depends.
0:45:28
They will definitely impact the matching eligibility of specific contributions if we have not been if our, if the campaign is not satisfied, it's burden of proving that the contribution is matchable.
0:45:39
That doesn't mean that the campaign as a whole is ineligible for public funds, and it doesn't mean that the contribution that we flag is permanently ineligible for match.
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It means it will not be matched on December 16th.
0:45:50
It is I I expect it will be the case that campaigns, that have not been as maybe on top of things or that did not get back to us in response to the statement review by November 22nd will nevertheless get they are required to get back to us us by, the January I believe it's January 15th filing deadline.
0:46:10
They may establish eligibility for a contribution that then gets matched in January, not in December, because of the way they chose to respond to the statement review.
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And just to to put a
Lincoln Restler
0:46:19
finer point on one of your earlier statements, the board has the full authority to withhold all matching funds for a candidate at the December, 16th disbursement.
