Mayoral candidate Brad Field fined for not filing campaign disclosure

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Elections Alberta has levied a $1,000 advantageous in opposition to Calgary mayoral candidate Brad Area for his failure to file a marketing campaign disclosure assertion.

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Area was fined beneath the Native Authorities Elections Act, which requires candidates to reveal their marketing campaign contributions, bills and fundraising totals by March 1 following a municipal election.

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The election authority handed the advantageous to Area on 21 March, and it was paid on 19 April.

In complete, 58 of the 197 candidates within the election did not submit disclosures by the March 2022 deadline.

Lots of these candidates filed their bills late, with Area one in every of solely six candidates for mayor and council whose filings don’t seem on town’s marketing campaign disclosure webpage.

The others embody mayoral candidates Kevin J. Johnston, Sunny Singh and Will Vizor, in addition to Ward 4 council candidate Shane Roberts and Ward 8 candidate Madina Kanayeva.

Those that haven’t filed by March 11, 2022 usually are not eligible to run within the 2025 election. All elected candidates met the deadline.

Area is the one one fined for not submitting his disclosure.

The one different advantageous stemming from Calgary’s 2021 civic election thus far is a $500 advantageous to Ward 13 Coun. Dan McLean for receiving “prohibited contributions” associated to a Stampede breakfast present supplied to his 2021 marketing campaign.

Area was fourth within the mayoral race, behind present mayor Jyoti Gondek and candidates Jeromy Farkas and Jeff Davison.

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