Complaint filed over Portage mayor's overdue financial records
NWI Times
Jan 27, 2015
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PORTAGE | The Porter County Democratic Central Committee has filed a formal complaint against Portage Mayor James Snyder for not filing his annual financial report on time.
The deadline for all candidates who maintain active committees was noon Jan. 21.
Democratic Chairman Jeff Chidester is requesting the Porter County election Board to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the matter.
Kenard Taylor, Snyder's campaign treasurer, said he expects the report to be filed in one or two weeks.
Taylor said Snyder's former treasurer resigned and he was asked to take the position shortly after the first of the year. He said he is a "stickler for finances" and wanted to review previous reports where he found several errors.
Taylor said they recently filed an amended 2011 report and will be filing amended reports for 2012 and 2013 before tackling the 2014 report.
Taylor added that they made Election Board President David Bengs aware they would be late in filing the report in a recent letter.
Chidester said that wasn't an excuse, that the dates for the filing deadlines are set well in advance.
"There is no extension. If you need to file and know you are having problem, you should still file on time and if you need to, you can then file an amended report," said Chidester, calling it ironic that candidates who call for transparency don't follow their own ideas.
"In the past that deadline has been ignored by the election board," said Taylor, adding the deadlines aren't taken seriously and that they had notified the election board president they would be late in filing the financial statement.
"We wanted to be up front and above board," Taylor said.
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