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.

Your committee reported the following contribution(s) that appear to exceed the calendar year limit of $1,000 that an individual can contribute to a candidate's committee:

Please review your records. If an excess contribution was received, the committee should refund the excess amount to the individual.

All expenditures in excess of $100 must be drawn directly from the committee's campaign account. The following expenditure(s) appear to include reimbursements for items over $100:

In the future, for compliance and timely disclosure, campaign expenses should be drawn directly from the campaign account.

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

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.

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