For the third time in less than a week and the second time in one day, Lisa Wheeler-Brown’s campaign staff filed correction to previous treasurer’s reports. The latest round of updates include corrections to previous corrections that listed the wrong dates and numbers for some of the reporting periods.
An amendment filed at City Hall to Wheeler-Brown’s growingly complex campaign finance file showed she had brought in $993 between April 1 and July 19. First, those dates actually combine two separate reporting periods. The campaign brought in just $993 between July 1 and July 19. However, from April 1 until June 30 the campaign brought in $10,485.
That mix-up originally showed a $10,000 discrepancy in contributions that, according to the latest round of edits, didn’t actually exist.
Earlier in the day Wednesday, Wheeler-Brown campaign consultant Meagan Salisbury filed a series of amendments including the addition of seven in-kind contributions from Advantage Village Academy. Those additions were filed after this blog pointed out the campaign had failed to disclose use of the facility for office space. The second round of amendments filed just minutes before City Hall closed changed references to those in-kind contributions for office space from Advantage Village Academy to Parker Financial Services, a company owned by Parker Toriano, the same person who owns Advantage.
There are still three unchanged references to Advantage Village Academy that duplicate those now changed to Parker Financial Services. So, probably more edits are coming tomorrow.
Salisbury attributes the flurry of mistakes to bad finance reporting earlier in the campaign before her company, Blue Ticket Consulting, took the campaign management reins. The original campaign manager, Nick Janovsky, claims he quit after a professional difference of opinion. The campaign claims he was fired.
Janovsky defers any blame thrown his way over finance tangles to the timing. Janovsky stopped working on the campaign in mid-March, more than two weeks before the first campaign finance documents were filed. Before leaving the campaign, Janovsky was listed as the “treasurer or deputy treasurer” in original filing documents.
