HomeMy WebLinkAboutBOCC Packet 04252012 Campaign FinanceBOCC SPECIAL MEETING
APRIL 25, 2012
FIRST READING ON ORDINANCE ENACTiNG NEW TITLE 4 OF THE PITKIN
COUNTY CODE, RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE REGULATIONS
APPLICABLE TO COUNTY CANDIDATES, POLITICAL COMMITTEES AND ISSUE
COMMITTEES�AND CLARIFYING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STATE
CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW AND PITKIN COUNTY CAMPAIGN FINANCE
REGULATIONS AS SET FORTH !N SQID TITLE 4 AND IN THE PITKlN COUNTY
HOME RULE CHARTER
Pitkin County Issue Committee 2005-2011 submitted by Dwight Shellman during this
hearing.
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
REGULAR MEETING DATE:
AGENDA ITEM TITLE :
STAFF RESPONSIBLE:
ISSUE STATEMENT:
April 25, 2012
Campaign Finance Ordinance
Janice K. Vos Caudill, Clerk and Recorder
Dwight K. Shellman III, Election Manager
Should the Board adopt an ordinance clarifying that the campaign finance provisions of the
Pitkin County Home Rule Charter ("HRC") §6.6 applies only to:
• candidates for elective office of Pitkin County ("county candidates")
• county candidate committees;
• political committees supporting or opposing candidates for county office, and;
• issue committees supporting or opposing ballot issues or questions referred to or initiated by
county electors in their capacity as such;
so that all other filing entities currently subj ect to state regulation, including county political parties,
will remain subj ect to all applicable provisions of state campaign finance law and oversight by the
Colorado Secretary of State`?
BACKGROUND:
1. June 21, 2011 Work Session:
At a work session on June 21, 2011, the Board opted to clarify the scope of the campaign finance
regulations contained in HRC § 6.6, and their relationship with state campaign finance law, by
adopting an ordinance rather than referring to county electors a proposed charter amendment for the
2011 Coordinated Election ballot. It was anticipated that a draft ordinance would be presented for
the Board's consideration in early 2012.
2. February 28, 2012 Work Session:
At a work session on February 28, 2012, the clerk and election staff submitted an initial draft of a
proposed Ordinance for the Board's consideration. Members of the public and the Board raised the
following points:
Re�istration and disclosure thresholds for county issue committees: Commissioner Richards
expressed the view that the reporting threshold for county issue committees should be the
lowest possible dollar amount that will withstand constitutional scrutiny.
Coordinated expenditures by political parties on behalf of county candidates: The
chairpersons of the county Republican and Democratic parties expressed concerns about the
fact that HRC § 6.6 treats a party's coordinated expenditure on behalf of a county candidate
as a contribution by the party to the candidate, subj ect to the $ 5 00 contribution limit.
Members of the Board also expressed concern about the blurry demarcation between
coordinated and independent expenditures.
Direct contributions b, county political parties to county candidates: Election staff indicated
it may be necessary to prohibit county party's from making direct contributions to county
candidates, under the following reasoning:
o Unlike state law, Pitkin County prohibits any person from contributing more than
$500 to a county candidate for any given election;
o If county political parties contribute more than $500 to a county candidate, the
political party will have violated Pitkin County's contribution limit;
o One obj ective of the ordinance is to clarify that county parties are subj ect to the
regulatory oversight and enforcement authority of the Secretary of State;
o The Secretary of State does not have constitutional or statutory authority to enforce
Pitkin County's contribution limits, or any campaign finance provision other than
those established by state law.
• Coordination with Secretary of State's Office: Election staff advised the Board that efforts
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were underway to schedule a telephone conference call with county election staff, campaign
finance staff of the Secretary of State's office and the county party chairs to obtain approval
in advance of the proposed Ordinance, to the extent possible. The Board strongly
encouraged this effort to coordinate with state officials.
3. March 23, 2012 Conference Call with Secretary of State:
On March 23rd, the clerk, election staff and the county party chairs participated in a conference
call regarding the proposed Ordinance with Secretary of State Scott Gessler, Campaign Finance
Lead Stephen Bouey and other representatives of the Department of State on March 23rd. Secretary
Gessler reiterated that he remains amenable to the general approach of the proposed ordinance. The
Secretary also made several drafting suggestions, including:
Delete the mandate that filing entities other than county entities comply with state law,
because Pitkin County ultimately has no constitutional authority to require other filing
entities to do anything (because by definition they do not affect the organization and structure
of county government). In lieu of the objectionable mandate, add language to the effect that
the Pitkin County's ordinance is concerned with county entities only, and no others;
Revise the definition of "county issue committee" to eliminate references to the capacity of
Pitkin County electors;
• The idea of flatly prohibiting county political parties from making direct contributions to
county candidates is constitutionally suspect because political parties are voluntary
associations with at least as many rights as political committees and the HRC does not
prohibit political committees from making such direct contributions. Secretary Gessler
recommended an alternative approach to resolve this issue that permits county parties to
make direct contributions to county candidates up to the limit of $500 per election, provided
that they do so from a separate, segregated fund, all activity in which shall be exclusively
subj ect to the campaign finance provisions of the HRC and the proposed ordinance.
LINK TO STRATEGIC PLAN:
Core Focus Area: Prosperous EconomY
Success Factor 3: Hi�h performin� Count_y leaders, teams and emplo_yees: "Encourage
high standards among county officials, administrative and elected, in conjunction with
state agencies, to further understand county operations involving similar work to promote
best practices, innovation and efficiencies."
KEY DISCUSSION ITEMS:
A revised Ordinance incorporating Secretary Gessler's suggestions and all but one of the Board's
directives is attached as Exhibit A.
Two sub stantive i s sue s de serve separate tre atment here :
1. Re�istration and reportin� thresholds for county issue committees: The Board seemed to reach
consensus that these registration and reporting thresholds should be the lowest, constitutionally
permissible amounts.
• The most pertinent judicial guidance on this issue is ►Saynpson v. Buesche�, 625 F.3d 1247
( l Oth Cir. 2010). In that case, a group of neighbors opposing a proposed municipal
annexation expended $728 on yard signs and mailings. This amount exceeded the $200
registration threshold, and the $20/contribution disclosure threshold, of state law. The group
also spent over $1100 in attorney's fees in connection with an enforcement action under state
law. A stipulated settlement of the enforcement action was on the verge of being entered into
when the annexation opponents commenced a federal lawsuit challenging the
constitutionality of the registration and reporting thresholds. The federal court of appeals
held that the thresholds imposed a significant burden on plaintiff's rights of association, and
were not narrowly drawn to further a compelling governmental interest.
• Under ►Saynpson v. Buesche�, we know that statutory thresholds of $200/$20 are too low, and
that a registration threshold of $728 is also too low. The court's language strongly indicates
a$1,000 threshold is too low. The court of appeals did not provide definitive guidance
regarding constitutionally permissible thresholds, and instead stated:
We do not attempt to draw a bright line below which a ballot-issue
committee cannot be required to report contributions and
expenditures. The case before us is quite unlike ones involving the
expenditure of tens of millions of dollars on ballot issues
presenting "complex policy proposals." [Citation omitted] . We say
only that Plaintiffs `cont�ibutions and expenditu�es a�e well below
the line. (Emphasis added).
• As noted in the Agenda Item Summary for the February 28th work session, the
Secretary of State promulgated an emergency rule in early 2011 raising the
registration threshold for issue committees under state law to $5,000.1 The rule was
intended to provide a substitute threshold to replace those invalidated by the federal
court of appeals in ►Saynpson v. Buesche�. It is likely that the Secretary and his staff
focused on the "well below the line " language of the quoted text in establishing the
new, higher threshold.
• The clerk and election staff do not possess a crystal ball here. The most conservative
approach is for the Board to adopt the $5,000 threshold proposed earlier this year by
the Secretary of State. The Board is free of course to adopt a lower threshold, but
election staff strongly recommends that the threshold be well above $1,000 (e.g.,
�$2,500`?) due to the language in ►Saynpson v. Buesche�.
2. The attached revised draft does not incorporate the request of Board and the party chairs to better
delineate the line between coordinated and independent expenditures, for the following reasons:
• Since 1980,2 the HRC has defined the term "person" to mean "any individual, partnership,
corporation, association, firm, coynynittee, governmental entity, o� othe� o�ganization o�
g�oup of pe�sons (howeve� o�ganized,." [Emphasis added.] Political parties are clearly
included within the scope of this definition.
• Since 2002,3 HRC § 6.6.4 has required persons making coordinated expenditures in excess of
$250 to report them within one week, and within 24 hours if made within 8 days of the
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e ection.
• Since 2002, the HRC has defined a"coordinated expenditure" as "an expenditure made by
any person in coordination, cooperation, consultation, or concert with — or at the request or
1 The Denver District Court held the emergency rule to be invalid as exceeding the Secretary of State's rule-making
authority in Colo�ado Colnlnon Cause v. Gessle�. The Department of State has appealed that decision. Although
the temporary rule was incorporated as Rule 4.1 in the re-codified Campaign and Political Finance Rules (which
became effective on a permanent basis on March 30, 2012), the Secretary has stated publically that the Department
of State will not enforce the new rule unless and until the Denver District Court's decision in Colo�ado Colnlnon
Cause v. Gessle�. No legislative efforts in the General Assembly are known to be underway to address the federal
court of appeals' invalidation of issue committee registration and reporting thresholds under state law. As a result of
all of the foregoing, apparently there are no enforceable registration and reporting thresholds for issue committees
under state law at the present time.
� BOCC Resolution 80-47.
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' BOCC Resolution No. 151-2002 at 3.
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suggestion of — a candidate or agent of a candidate. Coordinated expenditures are treated as
contributions, and count against the contribution limitations set forth in section 6.6.2 of this
Charter."
• The concept and implications of coordinated contributions are not new in Pitkin County.
Political parties and all other persons have been subject to these rules for at leastl0 years.
Election staff is unclear how the Board can lawfully adopt an ordinance that weakens or
diminishes the coordinated contribution concept of a Home Rule Charter provision adopted
by vote of county electors.
BUDGETARY IMPACT:
No budgetary impacts are anticipated.
RECOMMENDED BOCC ACTION:
The Clerk and election staff request the Board to consider the attached revised Ordinance
and provide such guidance as it deems appropriate for further legislative refinement in advance
of its second reading, now scheduled for the Board's regular meeting on May 9, 2012.
ATTACHMENTS:
Exhibit A Revised Ordinance adding new Title 4 to Pitkin County Code
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF PITKIN
COUNTY, COLORADO, ENACTING NEW TITLE 4 OF THE PITKIN COUNTY
CODE, RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO
COUNTY CANDIDATES, POLITICAL COMMITTEES AND ISSUE COMMITTEES,
AND CLARIFYING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STATE CAMPAIGN FINANCE
LAW AND PITKIN COUNTY CAMPAIGN FINANCE REGULATIONS AS SET FORTH
IN SAID TITLE 4 AND IN THE PITKIN COUNTY HOME RULE CHARTER
ORDINANCE NO. - 2012
RECITAL S
WHEREAS, the electors and governing boards of home rule counties are vested by article XIV,
§ 16 of the Colorado constitution, and the Colorado Home Rule Powers Act, §§ 3 0-3 5-101 to
906 of the Colorado Revised Statutes ("C.R.S."), as amended; with the constitutional and
statutory authority to adopt home rule charters and enact ordinances, respectively, establishing
the organization and structure of county government;
WHEREAS, the manner of electing county officers and of financing political campaigns
supporting or opposing candidates for county office and ballot issues and questions referred to or
initiated by county electors in their capacities as such, are matters affecting the organization and
structure of county government and therefore are within the constitutional and statutory authority
of county electors and the governing board to regulate by duly adopted home rule charter or
ordinance;
WHEREAS, Pitkin County has been organized and operating as a home rule county by virtue of
the adoption of the Pitkin County Home Rule Charter (the "Charter") on March 21, 1978;
WHEREAS, on November 4, 1980, the electors of Pitkin County approved the addition of
Home Rule Charter section 6.6, establishing unique campaign finance regulations for county
candidates and political committees supporting or opposing their election, which regulations
were substantively distinct from the state campaign finance law, then known as the Campaign
Reform Act, applicable to candidates in statutory counties and for offices above the county level;
WHEREAS, as a result of its status as a home rule county, Pitkin County has a thirty-two year
tradition and culture acknowledging the value and importance of transparency and disclosure in
the financing of campaigns in local elections;
WHEREAS, continual amendments and revisions to the constitution and applicable statutes of
the State of Colorado since 1980 have introduced ambiguity and uncertainty in the
interrelationship between the campaign finance regimens of Pitkin County and the State of
Colorado;
WHEREAS, the purpose of this Ordinance is to clarify the scope of the campaign finance
applicable to certain campaigns active in Pitkin County elections as set forth Charter § 6.6, and
their relationship to companion provisions of state law.
EXHIBIT A- Revised Campaign Finance Ordinance - Page 1- 04/25/2012
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO, that the Pitkin County Code is
hereby amended by the addition of a new Title 4, which shall read as follows:
TITLE 4 Campaign Contributions and Expenditures
SECTIONS:
4.10 Adoption and General Applicability of State Campaign Finance Law; County
Definitions
4.20 Limits on Contributions to County Candidates
4.30 Disclosure of Coordinated and Independent Expenditures
4.40 Disclosure by County Entities
4.50 Penalties for Violations
4.60 Action by Board of County Commissioners
4.10 Adoption and General Applicability of State Campaign Finance Law; County
Definitions
A. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Title 4, the following provisions and
compilations of state law, as the same presently exist and as they may be in the future
amended, and any successor provisions thereto (collectively referred to hereafter as "state
campaign finance law"), are hereby adopted and shall apply to all elections conducted in
the County by the Clerk and Recorder:
1. Article XXVIII of the state constitution;
2. The Fair Campaign Practices Act, C.R. S. §§ 1-45-101 et seq. ;
3. The Election Rules Concerning Campaign and Political Finance promulgated
by the Colorado secretary of state.
B. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Title 4, and unless the context clearly
requires otherwise, all terms used herein shall have the definitions and meanings ascribed
to them by state campaign finance law.
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EXHIBIT A- Revised Campaign Finance Ordinance - Page 2- 04/25/2012
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following terms shall have the following meanings for purposes of the remaining
provisions of this Title 4:
1. "Appropriate officer" means the Clerk and Recorder with respect to county
candidates, county candidate committees, county issue committees and county
political committees, and the appropriate officer designated by state campaign
finance law with respect to all other persons and entities.
2. "Board" means the Pitkin County Board of County Commissioners;
3. "Coordinated expenditure" means an expenditure made by any person in
coordination, cooperation, consultation, or concert with - or at the request or
suggestion of - a candidate or agent of a candidate. Coordinated expenditures are
treated as contributions, and count against the contribution limitations set forth in
Section 4.08 of ����������������������������������� ������ Charter.
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5. "County ballot question" means a matter, other than a ballot issue, that is referred
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6. "County candidate" means a candidate, as defined by state campaign finance law,
for election to the office of County Commissioner, Sheriff, County Clerk and
Recorder, or County Assessor of Pitkin County, or seeks to be retained as judge of
the Pitkin County court. A person becomes a county candidate upon:
a. The filing of nominating petitions with the Clerk and Recorder as
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otherwise publicly announcing an intention to seek nomination or election
to a County elective office or retention of a County judicial office, and
b. Receiving a contribution or making one or more expenditures in support
of the candidacy. A person remains a county candidate for purposes of
this Title 4 so long as the county candidate maintains a county candidate
committee. A person who maintains a county candidate committee after
an election cycle, but who has not publicly announced an intention to seek
election to public office in the next or any subsequent election cycle, is a
county candidate for purposes of this Title 4.
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7. "County candidate committee" means a candidate committee, as defined by state
campaign finance law, established or maintained under the authority and to
support the election of a county candidate. A contribution to a county candidate
shall be deemed a contribution to the applicable county candidate committee. A
county candidate shall have only one county candidate committee. A county
candidate committee shall be considered open and active until affirmatively
closed by the county candidate or by action of the Clerk and Recorder.
8. "County entities" means county candidates, county candidate committees, county
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campaign finance law, which supports or opposes any county ballot issue or
county ballot question. A county issue committee shall be considered open and
active until affirmatively closed by such committee or by action of the Clerk and
Recorder.
10. "County political committee" means a political committee, as defined by state
campaign finance law, which supports or opposes the nomination or election of
one or more county candidates. "County political committee" does not include �
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operating in the County that, but for this Title 4, would be subj ect to any oversight
or regulation under state campaign finance law, other than county entities.
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4.30 Disclosure of Coordinated and Independent Expenditures
A. All persons making coordinated expenditures with respect to county candidates and
county candidate committees, and all persons making independent expenditures with
respect to county candidates and county candidate committees in excess of two
hundred fifty ($250.00) dollars, shall report the same to the Clerk and Recorder no
later than seven (7) days after the date on which such expenditures are made;
provided, however, that reporting of such expenditures under this section must be
performed no later than twenty-four (24) hours after the time of such expenditures if
the expenditure is made in the eight (8) days preceding any election. The report to the
Clerk and Recorder required by this subsection shall be in a form approved by the
Clerk and Recorder and include the name and address of the person making the
expenditure, the amount of the expenditure, a detailed description of the use of the
expenditure, and the name of the candidate who the expenditure is intended to support
or oppose.
B. Failure to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall have no effect on the
validity of any election, issue or bonds issued pursuant to law, except as provided in
Section 4. � �
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4.40 Disclosures by County Entities:
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A. Filings required by state campaign finance law: All county entities shall file with the
Clerk and Recorder all organizational papers, disclosure reports and other documents,
and all amendments and corrections thereto, that state entities are required to file with
an appropriate officer under state campaign finance law. The filings required by this
subsection 4.40(A) shall be made in a form approved by the Clerk and Recorder, and
shall be timely made according to the filing schedules for state entities under state
campaign finance law, except as otherwise provided by Ordinance adopted by the
Board.
B. Additional county filings: In addition to the filings required by subsection 4.012(A),
the following county entities shall make the following additional county filings:
1. County candidates: Upon becoming a candidate as defined by state campaign
finance law, all county candidates shall file with and in a form approved by the
Clerk and Recorder, a designation in writing of any county political committees
affiliated with, or known to be making expenditures in support of, the county
candidate' s campaign.
2. County political committees: Upon becoming a political committee as defined by
state campaign finance law, all county political committees shall file with and in a
form approved by the Clerk and Recorder, an affidavit of organization
demonstrating decision making independence from any county candidate or other
county political committee. Any county political committee not filing such an
affidavit may not accept any contributions or make any expenditures.
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deemed timely if made at or before the regular close of business of the office of the Clerk
and Recorder.
4.50 Penalties for Violations:
A. The County Clerk and Recorder shall publish the names of all county entities not in
compliance with the applicable provisions of this Title 4 no later than ten (10) days prior
to any election, if such lack of compliance is known to the Clerk and Recorder at such
time.
B. Any county candidate who knowingly or intentionally violates any provision of this
section, or who conspires with another to violate any provision of this section, shall, in
addition to any other penalties, be denied his/her right to take oath for the office to which
he/she was elected, unless he/she has already taken said oath, in which event the office
shall be deemed vacated and shall be filled as otherwise provided by this Charter.
C. Any person who knowingly or intentionally violates a provision of this Title 4 relating to
a county entity is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or by imprisonment in the County j ail
for not more than ten (10) days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
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4.6 Action by Board of County Commissioners
The Board is authorized to effectuate, implement and clarify this Title 4 and Charter § 6.6 by
subsequent Ordinance, as the Board deems appropriate from time to time. This authority
includes without limitation establishing civil penalties for a county entity's negligent
noncompliance with any provision of this Title 4; establishing procedures and designating
appropriate officers to monitor compliance with and enforce the provisions of this Title 4, and, in
the event that any contribution limit or other restriction or provision of this Title 4 is determined
to be invalid by final decision of a court of competent jurisdiction, to provide a substitute or
replacement limit, restriction or provision therefor.
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