QUICK TIP: Campaign funds may not be commingled with any individual’s personal funds.
Expenditures from Multiple Accounts A candidate who has more than one campaign committee must make all expenditures in connection with an election from the campaign bank account established for that election, including: • Campaign strategic planning and fundraising expenses; • Services and actual expenses of outside political consultants, the campaign treasurer, other staff, pollsters, and other persons who provide services directly in connection with the election; • Voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives; and • Payments for mailings, political advertising, yard signs, opinion polls or surveys, and other communications if the payments are either: 1. For a communication that makes reference to the candidate’s future election or status as a candidate; or 2. Made three months prior to an election for which the candidate has filed a Candidate Intention Statement (Form 501), a declaration of candidacy, or nomination papers with an elections official, or any other documents necessary to be listed on the ballot for an elective office. Ex 3.1 - Thien Vu is a city council member and still has an open committee from the city council election. Thien is running for county supervisor in the next election and has opened another bank account and committee for that race. Thien must use the campaign bank account for the county supervisor campaign to pay for the yard signs and all other expenses related to the upcoming county supervisor election.
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Chapter 3.7
Campaign Manual 2 August 2023 Page 170
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