With less than 7 days remaining prior to next Tuesday's 2013 Ogden City Municipal election, we're pleased to present the Third Set of timely-filed Ogden City Council Campaign Finance Disclosures, which are linked and summarized in the handy table below. We've put the emphasis on the phrase timely-filed, inasmuch as two candidates, Pamela Stevens and Courtney White, missed yesterday's deadline, although Mr. White did manage to get his papers on file this morning.
These omissions could have significance, folks, as the potential penalty for a late filing could involve a tardy candidate's complete removal from the ballot. Here's the applicable ordinance Ogden City ordinance, folks, which should provide "relief" to each of these candidates, provided their failures to file were "inadvertent" and not "willful":
In the meantime, while the City Recorder and City attorney get these interesting irregularities sorted out, click the highlighted links to see how each of these candidates is doing with his or her fundraising, as we stand on the cusp of electing a new Ogden City Council::
Here's the latest financial data, fresh from the City Recorder's Office, peeps:
Office | Current | Current | Cumulative | Cumulative |
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Candidate | Contribution | Expense | Contribution | Expense |
Municipal Ward 1 | ||||
Neil K. Garner | $1,050 | $1,241 | $2,550 | $1,346 |
Pamela Stevens* | No Filing | No Filing | $0 | $25 |
Municipal Ward 3 | ||||
Turner C. Bitton | $3,602 | $5,607 | $9,805 | $9,696 |
Doug Stephens | $1,840 | $1,724 | $6,150 | $4,036 |
At-Large "A" | ||||
Stephen D. Thompson | $438 | $989 | $2,406 | $2,259 |
Marcia L. White | $4,365 | $3,598 | $17,498 | $9,696 |
At-Large "B" | ||||
Bart Blair | $1,875 | $84 | $1,875 | $109 |
Courtney Jon White** | $61 | $100 | $261 | $261 |
** Late Filing - Disqualified
Your ever-savvy comments and analysis are now invited, of course.