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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Election 2008 Bruce Broussard Files Election Complaint Against Sho Dozono

Posted by Amy J. Ruiz on Tue, Feb 12 at 10:23 AM

Bruce Broussard—a community activist and frequent figure in Portland politics—has filed a complaint with the state elections division, against Sho Dozono.

In a recent Oregonian article, Broussard says in his handwritten complaint, “it was indicated that the candidate for mayor Sho Dozono violated the definition of a candidate according to Jennifer Hertel, campaign finance specialist with the Secretary of State’s office.”

“Concerns were also raised in the Tribune as well… I would like the Secretary of State to make a full investigation of this matter,” Broussard concludes.

He’s referring to the Dozono poll—a poll taken last December, that hasn’t appeared on Dozono’s campaign finance disclosures. Dozono has acknowledged seeing the poll results when he was deciding whether or not to run, and the Oregonian points out that “a poll done by someone else that you get a peek at is considered an in-kind contribution, and a good one can cost $20,000.”

According to my sources, the Dozono poll likely cost somewhere between $15K and $30K—a potential violation of the city’s $12,000 cap on in-kind contributions under the public financing rules, except City Auditor Gary Blackmer claims Dozono wasn’t bound by the city’s rules until he filed a declaration of intent to participate in the program on January 7.

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Poor Bruce.

He's run for every office in every election in memory. He ought to pay for a permanent page in the voter's pamphlet... kind of like having your name on the booth in your favorite restaurant.

Last I heard he was going to run for city council, although he hadn't decided which seat. He wants to "clear his name" over his near indictment on election fraud by uncovering all the loopholes in VOE. Emilie Boyles claimed that he was the "godfather" on the Golovan-Boyles_Tate affair, but I got news for you.

He ain't that smart.

Posted by anon | February 12, 2008 11:01 AM

Bruce is an idiot who has run for every office possible and has always lost because he is a total weirdo.

Bug off Bruce, you POS.

Posted by Bruce is an idiot | February 12, 2008 2:43 PM

City Auditor Gary Blackmer claims Dozono wasn’t bound by the city’s rules until he filed a declaration of intent to participate in the program

And does Gary have an opinion on what to do about this glaring loophole in elections law, where you can just have your friends and allies do a bunch of spending on campaign research for you prior to filing a declaration of intent, and avoid any financial reports or paper trails on who spent all that money on you?

Posted by b!X | February 12, 2008 3:49 PM

Oh, also, there's two entirely different issues there: State elections law, and the city's public campaigns rules.

Whether or not the city considers the poll an in-kind contribution under its rules, the state laws seem clearer than people care to admit, as they define "candidate" as including:

"... an individual who has solicited or received a contribution or made an expenditure to secure the nomination or election to any public office at any time, whether or not the office for which the individual will seek nomination or election is known when the solicitation is made, the contribution is received and retained or the expenditure is made and whether or not the name of the individual is printed on a ballot ..."

That's entirely distinct from what Gary says is a non-issue at the city level.

Posted by b!X | February 12, 2008 3:53 PM

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