To:James Colonna
CC:Jesse Brown
Subject: Action Required: Campaign Finance Review – 17415 Brown Committee
Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Due Date: February 12, 2025

The Massachusetts campaign finance law requires this office to review all reports to ensure that they are legal, complete and accurate. A routine review of your report(s) revealed the following issue(s) which may need correction, clarification or additional information to provide complete and accurate public disclosure of your campaign finance activity for the reporting period.

Missing Deposit Report(s)

It appears you have not yet e-filed deposit reports for the following bank deposits:

Deposit Date Amount
11/4/2024 $95.70
11/12/2024 $300.00
11/20/2024 $250.00
11/27/2024 $7,500.00

Please e-file a deposit report for each missing item using Reporter 7 or the Gateway.

Potential Non-Disclosure of PAC Contribution(s)

The bank for each of the listed PAC(s) reported the following contribution(s) to your committee. Your committee reports, however, do not disclose the deposit of these contributions.

Date PAC ID Name Amount
10/28/2024 80512 MA Republican House Political Action Committee $500.00
11/20/2024 80320 Ntn'l Fed of Independent Business Massachusetts Political Action Committee $250.00

Please review your records. You will likely need to create a new deposit report to disclose this contribution. However, it is possible that the contribution may have been attributed to the treasurer or officer of the PAC, or erroneously attributed to a different PAC, in which case you would need to amend a previously-filed deposit report.

Clarify Expenditure Information

Your bank reported the following expenditure(s) with missing or unclear payee and/or purpose information:

Date Payee Amount Purpose
11/4/2024 FACEBK * MENLO   $550.00 POS PURCHASE 
11/4/2024 FACEBK * MENLO   $500.00 POS PURCHASE  
10/31/2024 FACEBK MENLO   $500.00 POS PURCHASE 
11/25/2024 FACEBK *  $493.21 POS PURCHASE  
11/5/2024 FACEBK * MENLO   $605.00 POS PURCHASE  
10/29/2024 FACEBK MENLO   $500.00 POS PURCHASE  
11/6/2024 IN *PETER HOOGERZEIL   $506.24 POS PURCHASE  
11/6/2024 IN *PETER HOOGERZEIL   $631.80 POS PURCHASE  
11/26/2024 KBOARDS PRODUCTION LLC  $2,150.00 CAMP MARKETING  
11/12/2024 Mailchimp Atlanta GA   $106.25 POS PURCHASE  
12/9/2024 Mailchimp Atlanta GA   $106.25 POS PURCHASE  

Please update the above expenditure(s) in the Gateway.

Clarification of Expenditure to Vendor Requested

Your report disclosed the following payments to vendors that exceed $5,000:

Date Payee Amount Purpose
11/4/2024 OPINION DIAGNOSTICS  $4,022.51 INV# 1146,1137,1123,1126,1157 SMS MESSAGING + DIGI
11/15/2024 OPINION DIAGNOSTICS  $3,992.22 INV# 1214,1195,1174 SMS + DIGITAL ADVERTISEMENT

Committees are required to disclose subvendor payments if the committee paid the original vendor $5,000 or more in a calendar year, and if the original vendor paid any subvendor over $500. Please contact the above vendor(s) in writing to request subvendor information, and either file a subvendor report or provide OCPF with confirmation that no subvendors were used.

In accordance with a ruling by the Supervisor of Public Records, this letter and all correspondence relating thereto is a matter of public record as of the requested date listed below. As such, it will be placed in the committee's public file at that time. Please respond to this request within two weeks of the date of this letter. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions concerning this matter or if you need additional information to comply with this request.

OCPF recently launched the Gateway, a software tool within Reporter 7 to help resolve and manage issues identified by OCPF. Click here to access the Gateway and view current items for review.

Caroline Paras
Auditor
Office of Campaign & Political Finance