Naijoiie Naigolies, canuiuate foi 0.S. Congiess (PA-1S), touay calleu upon Supei PAC Builuing A Bettei Pennsylvania to come clean on the souice of the money it is spenuing in the PA-1S iace.
Naigolies saiu, "National pio-choice gioups like NARAL anu ENILY's List have no pioblem ueclaiing theii opposition to Bienuan Boyle's anti-choice iecoiu. Yet a Supei PAC tiying to ie-wiite Boyle's anti-choice iecoiu continues to hiue in the shauows. It is time foi those funuing this anti-choice canuiuate's effoits stanu up anu show the voteis of PA-1S who they aie."
Refeiiing to the Leach campaign's filing of yet anothei FEC violation against Naijoiie 2u14, Naigolies saiu, "I am going to spenu the next eight uays tiying to save the only congiessional seat in Pennsylvania helu by a woman foi pio-choice Bemociats. If Baylin Leach wants to uistiact voteis with a uiscussion of campaign spenuing then let him answei up foi misleauing newswoiks.oig anu the voteis of PA-1S as to his peisonal finances."
Naigolies continueu, "Ny campaign touay is the only campaign foi PA-1S wheie the souice of eveiy uollai is known anu the expenuituie of eveiy uollai has been iepoiteu. The othei canuiuates in this iace have eithei misleu voteis as to theii peisonal finances, iefuseu to shaie with voteis the souice of peisonal finances flowing into the iace, oi aie being funueu by a Supei PAC that iefuses to uisclose the souice of its funus piioi to Election Bay."
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Releaseu his 2u12 taxes showing $78,874 in aujusteu gioss income anu no othei assets. At the time of the ielease, Leach tolu newswoiks.oig, he's "not o millionoire, becouse tbe biqb-volue ossets on bis Jisclosure form oll belonq to bis wife. Ee soiJ be bos no occess to tbose ossets, onJ tbot bis only income is bis leqislotor's solory." (newswoiks.oig, Apiil 28, 2u14). 0n S.u6.2u14 Baylin Leach maue a $2Su,uuu contiibution to his campaign in the foim of a home equity loan; a home two weeks ago that he hau "no access to" as an asset.
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Aikoosh has ueciueu to self-funu hei meuia campaign to the tune of $7uu,uuu in the last weeks (iollcall.com, Nay 12, 2u14), iepiesenting ovei 4u% of hei campaign funus. She has iefuseu to ielease even one yeai of hei tax ietuins claiming two weeks ago that hei "campaign was looking into it." (newswoiks.oig, Apiil 28, 2u14). Bo the voteis of PA-1S have no iight to see the souice of the funus that aie inunuating them on television. Naijoiie Naigolies ieleaseu five yeais of hei tax ietuins.
3+) ()#*+ 4156%#&'7 Thiee weeks ago, Baylin Leach accuseu Naijoiie 2u14 of "fiist uipp|ingj into the ieu on }anuaiy 1Sth anu uiun't get into the black on piimaiy cash on hanu again until Naich S1st, the uay befoie the fiist quaitei ueauline." Leach then allegeu, "at the woist point, Naich 19th, the Naigolies campaign woulu've spent anywheie fiom $71,427.94 to $78,u6S.94 of geneial election funus uepenuing on unitemizeu contiibutions. The Leach campaign faileu to account foi $78,Suu in unexpenueu funus Naijoiie 2u14 hau iepoiteu as segiegateu in its "Neuia Account" in its 2u1S Yeai Enu, 2u14 Apiil Quaiteily, anu 2u14 Pie-Piimaiy iepoits. Bau Leach accounteu foi these funus as unexpenueu (Naijoiie 2u14 uiu not launch its full meuia campaign until Nay S, 2u14), as they weie iepoiteu by Naijoiie 2u14, they woulu have appiopiiately tiackeu the following piimaiy cash-on-hanu timeline. Date COH Media Account Primary General P COH 1/15/14 $94,950.65 $52,500.00 $554,366.23 $104,777.77 $42,672.88 1/31/2014 $82,551.84 $52,500.00 $563,666.23 $107,377.77 $27,674.07 2/28/2014 $74,293.68 $66,250.00 $569,316.23 $107,377.77 $33,165.91 3/31/2014 $127,068.41 $78,500.00 $690,454.23 $154,477.77 $51,090.64 4/30/14 $132,929.76 $78,500.00 $765,677.08 $172,588.92 $38,840.84
The Naijoiie 2u14 campaign ieissueu the statement of its Tieasuiei anu Compliance Biiectoi, }ennifei Nay, Next Level Paitneis: "Naijoiie 2u14 useu an acceptable accounting methou to uistinguish between geneial anu piimaiy funus anu at no time uiu Naijoiie 2u14 access geneial election funus foi expenuituies in this piimaiy. Any asseition to the contiaiy is without meiit." Naijoiie 2u14 has ietaineu Kail Sanustiom of Peikins Coie to iepiesent the campaign befoie the FEC. Phone 2u2.4S4.16S9.