The Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission met yesterday to review several matters, including six fines and three advisory opinions.
Continue reading about Fines and other actions by the Ethics Commission at their December meeting
Today’s meeting of the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission included two civil fine hearings, as well as a number of civil fine assessments, and decisions about recent missing “Paid for by” attributions.
The big story was the $2500 fine levied on the ProKanDo PAC, the the $500 fine on a Sheriff candidate.
Continue reading about Ethics Commission Fines Candidate $500 and PAC $2500
Campaign finance reports from candidates and political action committees (PACs) were due in the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission Office on Monday.
A number of candidate and PAC reports are missing and “failure to file” letters have been sent to them.
But, enforcement of Kansas ethics laws seems fairly lax, and it’s not clear there’s much of [...]
Mr. Bruce McKinney was the Chair/Treasurer of a PAC, Wichita Voters for Truth, that sent out a hit piece in Wichita in Nov 2006 and then never filed a Jan 2007 report with the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission. The Ethics Commission cannot find this guy, but newspapers can find him and then quote [...]
The Wichita Voters for Truth PAC sent out this hit piece against State Rep candidate Jan Beemer in the Nov 2006 election, but never filed its Jan 2007 PAC report with the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission explaining how much money was raised and spent on that mailing. Bruce McKinney from Wichita was the [...]
