It has been a week and a day, give or take, since we reported on House leadership’s response to several Election Law (specifically campaign finance) complaints. The Committee to Elect House Republicans (CTEHR) appears numerically challenged, having somehow misplaced over 169,000 dollars between 2022 and 2024. To provide a bit of contrast, I could probably run Granite Grok for at least four years on that much in donations, so keep that in mind when CTEHR starts asking for money.
Or you could do as we’ve done, and almost nobody else, and ask the CTEHR to show you where the 169K went.
The response to our original request for comment on the complaints suggested that the CTEHR hadn’t noticed the problem. That this was a surprise and if someone HAD mentioned it instead of going to the Secretary of State anonymously, they’d have promptly addressed and corrected it.
A day after our first report on the problem, we were made aware of a meeting at which House leadership was made aware (back in mid-December) – a few days before the anonymous complaints were filed (also mid-December).
In the same article, we reported claims by the CTEHR (according to sources) that corrections had been filed in mid-December, but it can’t be both.
To summarize, leadership submitted corrections for a problem it claimed it didn’t know about, which they would have promptly corrected (had they known) but still have not.
It has been over a week since Majority Leader Osborne responded as part of our first report, and no one has found any updated or corrected filings. Is this where we say that promptly doesn’t mean what you think it means?
Promptly means, with little or no delay, so what precisely the F**k are you waiting for? A chunk of money is unaccounted for, and the stories aren’t lining up.
Should House Republican candidates, elected or otherwise, ponder the sketchy relationship between the CTEHR, Joe Sweeney, Ross Berry, Sherm Packard, and what looks like funneling money to services at inflated rates or for things no one can seem to find? Does Sherm even know, or does he just sign the reports you put in front of him?
Speaker Packard is the Treasurer, Majority Leader Jason Osborne is the CTEHR Chairman, Ross Berry is the Vice Chair, and someone appears to be hiding things or lying about them. As I wrote here, Don’t the people who donated to the CTEHR deserve to know what you did with their money? Don’t House Republicans deserve to know?
Where are the corrected or amended reports?
