What about Andy Ramirez, Beaumont Cherry Valley Water District Board Member that didn’t File any Reports at all?
This highlights the basis of our problems in this Country; people try to run with a word or concept without analyzing its benefits.
Political Action Committees, known as PACs, were formed to circumvent laws regulating campaign donations, but none of them ever had any money to hide.
If you’ll remember; the Riverside County D.A. had the nerve to try to cover up Nancy Carroll’s involvement with Orozco by claiming that Orozco had changed Nancy Carroll’s documents.
My question is; what about Julio Martinez and that dirty dog Andy Ramirez that’s sitting Beaumont-Cherry Valley Water District Board? Ramirez never filed any Disclosures with the State.
Written by Craig Shultz, Reprinted from the Riverside Press Enterprise:
Beaumont Mayor Nancy Carroll has been fined $1,244 by the Fair Political Practices Commission for filing violations regarding her two previous campaigns.
The FPPC said the Committee to Elect Nancy Carroll Treasurer 2014 and Carroll failed to timely file one pre-election campaign statement and two semi-annual campaign statements.
In the Council race, the Committee to Elect Nancy Carroll 2016 and Carroll failed to timely file one pre-election campaign statement and two 24-Hour Reports.
Read FPPC Complaint Here: http://www.fppc.ca.gov/content…
Read Full Story Here: https://www.pe.com/2017/12/27/…
Original Complaint:
June 6, 2017
Fair Political Practices Commission
Enforcement Division
428 J Street, Suite 620
Sacramento, CA 95814-2329
Re: Mark Orozco Move Beaumont Forward PAC for:
Nancy Carroll – Beaumont City Council
Julio Martinez – Beaumont City Council
Andy Ramirez – Beaumont-Cherry Valley Water District
Michael McGraw – Beaumont Unified School District
Beaumont City Councilman Mark Orozco has been Indicted by the Riverside District Attorney’s Office for Soliciting a Bribe and Perjury: http://www.pe.com/2017/05/12/beaumont-councilman-indicted-for-bribery-perjury-by-grand-jury/
Orozco solicited bribes for his PAC called ‘Move Beaumont Forward’. The PAC was formed with the cooperation and collusion of Julio Martinez, Nancy Carroll, Andy Ramirez, and Michael McGraw. The PAC spent the following on each Candidate:
Carroll: $2,336.74
Martinez: $2,119.93
Ramirez: $1,339.03
McGraw: $2,090.10
Martinez, Carroll and Ramirez did not disclose that Orozco’s PAC paid for their Signage and Postcards. Andy Ramirez claimed nothing at all. When Ramirez was asked to provide FPPC documentation he stated that he was ‘totally self-funded’, so he didn’t have to file any documents.
Carroll and Martinez’ 700 Forms are located on the City of Beaumont’s transparency portal under City Clerk > Public Records Request Received > 2017 > Completed > Response to Bingham 05.26.17: http://publicdocs.beaumontcare…
82015. (a) “Contribution” means a payment, a forgiveness of a loan, a payment of a loan by a third party, or an enforceable promise to make a payment except to the extent that full and adequate consideration is received, unless it is clear from the surrounding circumstances that it is not made for political purposes.
(C) For purposes of subparagraph (B), a payment is made for purposes related to a candidate’s candidacy for elective office if all or a portion of the payment is used for election-related activities. For purposes of this subparagraph, “election-related activities” shall include, but are not limited to, the following:
Communications that contain express advocacy of the nomination or election of the candidate or the defeat of his or her opponent.
(ii) Communications that contain reference to the candidate’s candidacy for elective office, the candidate’s election campaign, or the candidate’s or his or her opponent’s qualifications for elective office.
(iii) Solicitation of contributions to the candidate or to third persons for use in support of the candidate or in opposition to his or her opponent.
(iv) Arranging, coordinating, developing, writing, distributing, preparing, or planning of any communication or activity described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii).
(v) Recruiting or coordinating campaign activities of campaign volunteers on behalf of the candidate.
ARTICLE 5. Independent Expenditures PACs
California Government Code 85500. (a) In addition to any other report required by this title, a committee, including a political party committee, that is required to file reports pursuant to Section 84605 and that makes independent expenditures of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more during an election cycle in connection with a candidate for elective state office or state ballot measure, shall file online or electronically a report with the Secretary of State disclosing the making of the independent expenditure. This report shall disclose the same information required by subdivision (b) of Section 84204 and shall be filed within 24 hours of the time the independent expenditure is made.
(b) An expenditure may not be considered independent, and shall be treated as a contribution from the person making the expenditure to the candidate on whose behalf, or for whose benefit, the expenditure is made, if the expenditure is made under any of the following circumstances:
(1) The expenditure is made with the cooperation of, or in consultation with, the candidate on whose behalf, or for whose benefit, the expenditure is made, or any controlled committee or any agent of the candidate.
(2) The expenditure is made in concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, the candidate on whose behalf, or for whose benefit, the expenditure is made, or any controlled committee or any agent of the candidate.
(3) The expenditure is made under any arrangement, coordination, or direction with respect to the candidate or the candidate’s agent and the person making the expenditure.