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Democratic Chairman Ed Maher Calls Out Creighton & Wehrheim Over Failure To Follow Campaign Finance Law
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 1:43PM Creighton and Wehrheim Ignore NYS Election Regulations
SMITHTOWN, NY- Ed Maher, Chairman of the New Democratic Party of Smithtown, was outraged today when he discovered that Town Councilmen Bob Creighton and Ed Wehrheim were negligent in filing their campaign finance reports by the required date.
“Their 32-Day Pre-Primary Financial Disclosure report was required to be filed with the Suffolk County Board of Elections by Monday, August 10,” said Ed Maher. “Amazingly, as of 11:04 a.m. on Tuesday August 18, they had still not complied with this New York State election regulation – over one week after it was due!”
“This is what happens when career politicians, who have been in office forever, think that the rules don’t apply to them,” continued Mr. Maher. “By ignoring New York State Election regulations, they demonstrate their indifferent disregard for the public. If they can’t comply with a simple filing deadline, how can voters trust them to budget their tax dollars?”
“Hypocritically, both Mr. Creighton and Mr. Wehrheim were ‘sticklers’ for the rules during the failed attempt to remove Supervisor Vecchio after his re-election in early 2014,” said Chairman Maher. “When their Conservative Party ally, Town Clerk Vincent Puleo tried to invalidate the legitimate election of Mr. Vecchio on a technicality, both Councilmen Creighton and Wehrheim originally supported this action. It’s also important to note that Mr. Puleo did not attempt to make Mr. Vecchio aware of the deadline.”
“This hypocrisy on the part of these two career politicians is a perfect example of why people have begun to lose faith in their elected officials,” concluded Mr. Maher. “This November, the voters of Smithtown have the opportunity to vote out the incumbents…ethical conduct matters.”
Reader Comments (8)
NY has some of the most lenient campaign finance laws & regulations in the country. Yet some how the Republicans seem to be unable to comply with them whether its Creighton, Wertheim, Gray or Gonsalves in Nassau. But somehow they have convinced the voters on Long Island that they are more competent to govern.
Even though we read every day of fiscal mismanagement on the part of Republican elected officials. Wake up folks its time to clean house.
It's now 12:05 p.m on Wednesday, August 19.
Mr. Creighton and Mr. Wehrheim have still not
filed the information required on August 10.
Tick tock.
It’s four o’clock on a Wednesday
Bob and Ed have not filed on time
It’s hard to dismiss – but the question is this
Is that any kind of a crime?
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It's one o'clock on a Friday
Ed W has listened to me
Isn't it wild - he FINALLY just filed
But no word yet from Bobby C
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It's 4 p.m. Mr. Creighton.
Are you going to miss another day?
The voters want to know.
It's eleven o'clock on a Friday
It's now been a VERY long while
How could this be - it's amazing to me
We're still missing Bobby C's file
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And now that they've both FINALLY posted
We can see why - the rules they ignored
They didn't want us to know - they take most of their dough
From those with issues before the Town Board
Isn't it against the law to file so late?
Does any election lawyer out there know what the penalty is?