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FOR IMMEDIATERELEASE CONTACT: MICHAEL BRODKORB
September 21, 2005 (612) 618-1168
CHRIS COLEMAN REFUSES TO DISCLOSE
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ST. PAUL DFL
COLEMAN HAS A LONG RECORD OF NOT COMPLYING WITH CAMPAIGN FINANCE DISCLOSURE LAWS
St. Paul – The Campaign for St. Paul’s Future today repeated its demand that Chris Coleman’s
campaign disclose and return all contributions received from the St. Paul DFL. The St. Paul DFL is
paying for and producing lawn-signs that are potentially illegally coordinated with Chris Coleman's
campaign.
Based on comments from Chris Coleman’s campaign, the Campaign for St. Paul’s Future will
unfortunately have to contemplate filing complaints with the appropriate governing authority to
force Chris Coleman’s campaign and the St. Paul DFL, to abide by Ramsey County and St. Paul’s
campaign finance and election laws. An official announcement on the filing of complaints will come
later this week.
Chris Coleman was endorsed by the St. Paul DFL on April 30, 2005. Since once receiving their
endorsement, Coleman’s campaign began coordinating campaign expenditures such as lawn-signs
with the St. Paul DFL. Because the St. Paul DFL did not file the legally required Pre-Primary
Report due on September 2, 2005, it is impossible to determine if the St. Paul DFL has exceeded
the contribution limit to Coleman’s campaign.
“Chris Coleman’s campaign’s flippant response to requests that they disclose the amount of
contributions they have received from the St. Paul DFL shows an unbelievable amount of contempt
for campaign finance disclosure laws,” said Campaign for St. Paul's Future spokesman Michael
Brodkorb.
According to the Ramsey County election office and information from media reports, the St. Paul
DFL has still not and will not file the legally required campaign finance disclosure reports for the
past seven years. The St. Paul DFL last filed their reports with the Ramsey County election office
on February 2, 1998, which covered the period of January 1 to December 31, 1997.
"The St. Paul DFL must have learned how to evade filing campaign finance disclosure forms from
Chris Coleman, who has a long-history of not filing his campaign’s reports in a timely manner,” said
Brodkorb. "After reviewing Chris Coleman’s past city council and Coleman’s 2000 congressional
campaign forms, it’s clear Coleman has never had an interest in disclosing to the public how his
campaigns are financed,” added Brodkorb.
According to public information available from the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), Chris
Coleman’s congressional campaign was notified on seven different occasions of the committee’s
failure to file the legally required campaign finance disclosure forms. On ten different occasions the
committee was notified by the FEC that reports filed by Coleman’s campaign did not provide the
legally required information.
Chris Coleman’s city council campaign also failed to file timely and accurate reports during
Coleman’s tenure as a St. Paul City Council member.
“The Campaign for St. Paul’s Future is proud of the role it has played in uncovering a massive hole
in campaign finance disclosure laws," said Brodkorb. “It’s appalling that the St. Paul DFL refuses to
comply with campaign finance disclosure laws even after being informed by Ramsey County
election officials of their legal obligation to disclose the committee’s financials for the last seven
years.”
The Committee 2 Recall Randy.org responded to yesterday’s demand by the Campaign for St.
Paul’s Future by agreeing to file the committee’s campaign finance disclosure forms today.
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Yeah so what.... that was then, this is now, what is going on NOW?
Hey 5:00 PM,
I checked this out today and the DFL St. Paul still has not filed their financial reports for over seven years. This is AGAINST the law, but it is the DFL party and this is ok? Now if any other Party or candidate did this, the DFL would be broadcasting it from the rooftops.
I will give you an example: During last years sheriffs race, the Director of Elections in Ramsey County made a big fuss about Sheriff Fletcher and not filing one and I repeat ONE financial report from over fours ago. It seems the Ramsey County Elections office lost it. Sheriff Fletcher provided another copy to the elections office.
Since the St. Paul DFL takes in big money, well over $50,000.00 a year, it is important to see how this money is spent. This is a requirement of ALL candidates and political parties in St. Paul. It seems the St. Paul DFL has missed over 28 reports associated with the seven years they did not file. What does the director of Elections in Ramsey County do, he goes after a person who was missing one report over four years ago instead of taking his own political party to task for missing over 28 financial reports over seven years.
It seems all other political parties and candidates filed these financial reports, but the St. Paul DFL was too busy to bother to file these reports. It seems the Director of Ramsey County Elections is still incompetent, playing partisan politics like he did when he was working for the Minnesota Secretary of State. He was fired from his job at the Minnesota Secretary of State and what does Ramsey County do, they hire him to run the elections in Ramsey County. You see Chuck; the Director of Elections in Ramsey County is a registered DFLer.
He was the "shoe in" for Ramsey COunty because he already had experience with corruption!
Hey 11:29 PM,
You are very correct the Ramsey County Director of Elections was a "shoe in" and he was perfect for the job. Why do you think the Secretary of State fired him in the first place?
Corruption in St. Paul government is at an unprecedented level. It has been for years, but now they are getting sloppy.
They're not getting sloppy, they just don't care cause they think we can't do anything about it.
Dear 1:03 AM,
How true your statement is.
I wonder where Chuck is?
Who cares where the hell Repke is? It is starting to look like there is much more to worry about than just the landlords deal with the city. This is just one more example of how the government thinks they are above the law! Meanwhile the well oiled gears of the "corruption machine" contine to turn.....they'll be starting up in just over an hour, churning and chewing whatever taxpayer they can find who still has a nickle in his pocket.
I'll bet none of them turn in where their money came from. They won't cause they know the landlords are waiting to get the lists so they can start calling in code violations on the contributors.
Hi 11:16 or somebody,
I'd like to send out the usual invitations to the Town Hall Meeting here. What is the directors name and email address or phone number if you have it?
Also, has the Ramsey County Attorney been notified?
Is this a criminal matter?
The MN. state statutes that apply would be helpful.
I'm sorry, I just don't have time to research this information right now.
These crooks are financed by more people outside of the city than inside the city I'll bet ya!
I have many campaign finance reports. Folks there is a lot of out of town donations. I'm not sure exactly what this means.
I will be posting a topic on this subject in the days to come.
Here is a small tease to that topic. The report I have on Pat Harris, well let's put it like this, you have to look hard for a citizen of Saint Pauls donation to his campaign.
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