Senate District 20 Republican candidate Mike Dudley was ordered to pay $100 for a campaign violation. He failed to put a disclaimer on his campaign material. This is his full press release:
Today a three-judge panel from the Office of Administrative Hearings found that a piece of campaign
literature produced by my campaign for the August Republican primary did not meet the letter of the
disclosure law requiring a disclaimer on campaign literature. Based on the small penalty handed down ($100) by the three-judge panel, they appear to agree with my assessment that this was a minor technical mistake.
The administrative judge’s order noted: “the violation was at most negligent on Respondents’ part
and had little, if any, adverse effect on the primary election.” They also noted that “Mr. Dudley made
appropriate efforts to promptly correct the mistake.”
As the candidate I am ultimately responsible for everything involved in my campaign. I have indicated
in a previous press release, this error was an inadvertent mistake by our small volunteer team, was
self-reported by me as soon as I became aware that it was a mistake and that I promptly attempted
to correct the mistake. I’m proud of our team of volunteers, but we are all very new to this process
and we feel truly bad about this mistake. We will be vigilant on these requirements going forward, and
have been carefully checking all of our campaign’s advertisements to make sure that the appropriate
disclaimers appear.
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