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The Blog for Sunday, February 20, 2005

Yipes

    Pesky forms:
    The Florida Democratic Party is re-filing state and federal campaign finance forms from as far back as 2003 to report hidden salaries of party employees.

    Both federal and state laws require political parties to individually list each employee's paycheck in the legally required reports. In October 2003, the FDP stopped reporting each employee's salary, instead reporting one lump sum for total payroll.
    And for the subtext, its an Ausman-Maddox thing:
    Party Chairman Scott Maddox attributed the mistake to confusion about new software. The lump sum reporting of payroll began nearly 14 months before the need for corrections came to Maddox's attention last week. Maddox said he had no idea why the salaries weren't individually listed, nor did he know why the software switch was made.

    Maddox received an e-mail in November 2004 from Jon Ausman, a longtime state party activist and member of the Democratic National Committee, which said the lump-sum reporting "makes it more difficult for reporters and investigators to determine who is being paid what."

    Ausman said Friday that his intention was to "gently" nudge Maddox into ending the lump sum reporting.

    Maddox said he wasn't aware of that e-mail, adding that his salary and that of all FDP employees was publicly reviewed at the party's meetings. He said he welcomed the full disclosure.
    "Fla. Democrats amend reports that hid payroll".

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