By Rebecca Gaunt
Cobb County Board of Training candidate Catherine Pozniak, a Democrat, filed a grievance in opposition to her opponent, Republican incumbent David Chastain, accusing him of violating marketing campaign finance legal guidelines.
Chastain’s October monetary disclosure reported two donations in extra of the $3,000 most. One was from the marketing campaign of state Rep. Ginny Ehrhart (R-west Cobb) for $5,500 and the opposite was from Taylor English lawyer Jonathan Crumley for $4,000.
“We realized our mistake over the weekend and already entered an modification,” Chastain responded in an e mail to the Courier on the time.
The amendments break up the contributions between the first and normal elections.
The grievance states that Chastain accepted contributions in extra of the restrict for college board campaigns and didn’t file a Type COOSA (Selecting Possibility of Separate Accounting) and declare his intent to maintain separate accounting for every election throughout the election cycle.
The grievance additionally states that Chastain is working and gathering marketing campaign contributions beneath the guise of a number of marketing campaign committees, none of that are registered with the Georgia Marketing campaign Finance Fee. Candidates can solely have one marketing campaign committee beneath state regulation.
“As a five-time candidate for public workplace, David Chastain is nicely conscious of the foundations of
Georgia’s Marketing campaign Finance Act. The donors that gave David Chastain marketing campaign
contributions in extra of the marketing campaign contribution limits aren’t simply any donors. They
are donors who benefitted from a no-bid contract David Chastain approved as a
member of the Cobb County Board of Training to attract a map that’s not even the
accountability of the college board,” Pozniak mentioned in a information launch.
“David Chastain’s disregard for marketing campaign finance legal guidelines raises critical questions on
his management and conduct as Chairman of the Cobb County Board of Training, which
oversees the district’s $1.5 billion finances.”
Chastain didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Rebecca Gaunt earned a level in journalism from the College of Georgia and a grasp’s diploma in schooling from Oglethorpe College. After educating elementary faculty for a number of years, she returned to writing. She lives in Marietta along with her husband, son, two cats, and a canine. In her spare time, she likes to learn, binge Netflix and journey.
