Ball FEC fillings gone missing?
Ball4NY Congressional Exploratory Committee spokesman Christopher Arnold says soon-to-be-announced Republican Congressional challenger Greg Ball submitted his Federal Election Commission forms on May 1.
But the paperwork for the presumed Republican opponent to U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, is nowhere to be seen, according to Julia Queen, an FEC spokeswoman.
“We do not have a report,” Queen said from Washington, D.C. today. “I checked with public records and we have not received anything from the Clerk of the House.”
It would take no longer than 24 to 48 hours to post the information on the FEC website once it did surface, Queen said.
Candidates who are “exploring” a run for Congress are obliged to file with the FEC once they raise or spend $5,000. No one on Ball’s exploratory committee has been willing to say how fundraising efforts have gone.
But Roll Call is reporting that the Republican state Assemblyman from Patterson has a full consulting team in place. For polling and general consulting, Ball is using Mike DuHaime who ran former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign and served as political director at the Republican National Committee.
Ball has also hired TV and direct mail fundraising consultants.
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This is where Greg Ball creates problems for himself, he or his people always seem to be playing games when it comes to presenting mandated information. You never seem to get a straight answer from him or his team. This has to stop if he is going to be taken seriously as a candidate for Congress.
Ball keeps forgetting that he’s playing with the big boys now. This isn’t Club Putnam and his illegal behavior and criminality is catching up with him…. FAST!
Aside from not filing his financial information – clear violation of federal law – he’s also using an employee of the New York State Assembly, Christopher Arnold, as his campaign spokesperson – a clear violation of state law.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
GREG BALL HAS A LONG HISTORY WITH SHADY LOANS, MISSING CAMPAIGN FILINGS AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN TRANSFERS.
JUST ONE STORY FROM THE ARCHIVES BELOW, MORE TO FOLLOW.
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February 13, 2007 at 4:53 pm by Elizabeth Benjamin
Freshman Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Carmel, who won significant attention for denouncing his fellow legislators as “dysfunctional” on the Assembly floor during last week’s state comptroller vote, has run afoul of state Elections Law by failing to file a financial report on Jan. 15 for his campaign committee, New Yorkers on the Ball.
State Board of Elections spokesman Lee Daghlian confirmed that Ball’s name is on a list of some 500 delinquent filers against whom the board plans to seek civil judgments in court tomorrow.
Daghlian said he was aware of no other state-level elected officials whose names are on that list.
The the pols don’t fulfill their responsibility to file a financial statement, they can be charged a fine of up to $500 plus interest and the board’s court costs.
Any person who “willingly and knowingly violates the filing provisions or contributions may be guilty of a misdemeanor,” according to the BoE’s Web site.
Ball’s last filing, made 27 days after the 2006 general election, showed he had $2,233 on hand and $11,898 worth of debt, $5,286 of which he owed to himself after he apparently paid for radio ads and campaign mailers out of his own pocket.
Ball has so far not returned a call for comment.
“For polling and general consulting, Ball is using Mike DuHaime who ran former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign and served as political director at the Republican National Committee.”
We saw how well that worked out for Rudy…
A quick google search of DuHaime turns up quite a few articles about how he was forced from his post at the RNC following “his inability to win a single election or exceed fund raising goals, despite a White House and congress under GOP control.”
Sounds like Ball picked a winner!
One wonders why you keep printing this insignificant Ball trivia. You’ve created and perpetuated a Paris Hilton in drag.
The thing that really turned me off about Ball was his treatment of women. From his personal life to public life, it’s just flat out disgusting.
His anti-choice position is so extreme that he thinks a woman should be barred from making a decision about her body even in the case of rape or incest.
He voted against equal pay bills time and again, citing his bizarre affection of goats as his reasoning.
And the personal drama that more closely resembles a Jerry Springer segment than the life of a statesman.
Restraining orders; threats of STDs; cheating on his girlfriend with her cousin; allegations of drug use; violence…
Ball should be checked into a treatment program. He’s a sick, sick man.
I hope that whomever Ball’s consultants are, they get their money up front in advance. He is notorious for playing games when it comes to paying people. And he is not above taking someone’s ideas, using them, refusing to pay, and claiming he came up with the idea on his own.
Ball must have the worst luck in the world. His filings always seem to go missing, bad things always seem to happen to just him. The poster above is right – NYS Board of Elections is a joke, but the FEC doesn’t mess around. If you can’t play with the big kids by their rules, better get out of the big boy sandbox.
A MUST READ
Ball steals money from charity, plots cover-up:
When the Washington Post reported that Greg Ball established a political action committee called Citizens United for Ethical Growth (CUEG) to funnel money from a charity which he also founded into his assembly race, the assemblyman denied the charges and slammed the paper. “The story is completely garbage,” he told the North County News.
But it wasn’t. The record is clear: Greg Ball funded his 2006 assembly bid with money donors thought would be spent to improve kids. It was a scam three years in the making.
In 2003, Ball founded the PAC, Citizens United for Ethical Growth, explicitly to raise funds for his future assembly race, but concealed this true purpose from donors. Instead, he cast the organization as a group dedicated to “smart growth” and environmentally-friendly development.
In 2004, Ball organized a charity polo match called “the Courage Cup” and promoted it as a fundraiser for kids in inner city Philadelphia, to provide them with an opportunity to learn to ride horses and play polo. However, in 2005, Ball used the charity to raise funds for his future assembly race by selling tickets to the Courage Cup’s “Golden Mallet Tent” through CUEG. Ball claimed afterwards that there was a disclaimer on the ticket website. “The disclaimer was so clear,” he told the North County News. “I’m still waiting for someone to tell me that the disclaimer wasn’t there.”
A disclaimer was there. It stated: “Profits arising from money raised by the Golden Mallet Tent will go towards supporting Citizens United for Ethical Growth (www.cueg.net, A Political Action Committee dedicated to promoting smart growth, Environmentally Sensible Policies, and Sustainable Development).”
But CUEG’s financial disclosures—as required by law—clearly show that all of the organization’s expenditures and donations were actually intended for Ball’s assembly race all along.
Why not just tell donors the truth?
“I thought the money was going to kids,” Courage Cup attendee Andrew McKenna told the Washington Post when the paper told him that his name was found in Ball’s campaign finance records. “I’d be pretty [infuriated] if I found out this was for a political race.”
“It was billed as a fundraiser to get kids involved with polo,” Britt Jung, another attendee told the Post, after expressing surprise at being found among CUEG’s donors.
It doesn’t end there though:
In 2007, now a freshman assemblyman, Ball engaged in a bitter public dispute with Andrea Rogers and Keri Ann Meslar, to whom gave charge of Courage Cup in 2006. Ball wanted to be in charge of the organization again, but Rogers and Meslar didn’t want anything to do him. They told the Post that Ball “ran a frat-party type” event that raised only $1,000 each year for charity and left behind sloppy records and unpaid bills.
After Rodgers and Meslar established Courage Cup as a legal charitable organization in the state of Virginia during Ball’s absence, in January 2007, Ball e-mailed several thousand local polo enthusiasts claiming that he was hosting the real Courage Cup and posted an open letter on couragecup.com denouncing Rodgers and Meslar for attempting to “hijack” his “intellectual property” by “stealing” Courage Cup. (Rodgers and Meslar had moved the official organization’s site to couragecup.org in mid-2006).
“A lot of blood, sweat and tears have gone into making the event a success,” he declared. Rodgers and Meslar responded with a press release outlining Ball’s failures, and went on to host the fourth Courage Cup—without Ball’s involvement—that June.
Ball only dismantled his Courage Cup site and took down his open letter after the Washington Post ran its story on June 12, 2007.
In its coverage, the Post asked a simple, but fundamental question: Why did Ball, a busy freshman assemblyman, want to keep running a charity party several hours from his home district?
“Perhaps because it helped him win his seat.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…is any one not suprised?
Isn’t this Christopher Arnold, Campaign spoksperosn and campaign filer also the same person that was arrested last fall for stealing signs and had to be bailed out by Ball? This guy works for the NYS Assembly???? Unbelievable.
Didn’t balls father used to do all of Balls campaign filing?
I’d like to support Ball for Congress, but when is he going to stop surrounding himself with amateur flunkies like Chris Arnold and Matt Neuringer. Stop worrying about the town of Southeast and get to the serious business!
Ball is not an honest person and never keeps his word
on anything that he says, therefore, how can anyone trust
this guy in congress? This is the truth and I feel he is totally untrustworthy in my opinion!
I think the filings were stolen by the same gang that dumped the goat in The Assemblyman’s yard.