CT GOP Files Election Complaints Against WFP

The Connecticut Working Families Party has violated both state and federal election laws during its attempt to aid Democrat candidates for statewide offices last year according to a complaint filed by the Connecticut Republican Party Friday.

“The Working Families Party has been long known to be a hollow organization which merely exists to prop up Democrats by funneling money to liberal candidates,” said Republican State Party Chairman Chris Healy. “It appears the WFP doesn’t believe it has to play by the same rule.”

The complaints – filed with both the state Election Enforcement Commission and the Federal Election Commission – show that the WFP made unauthorized donations and transfers.

It made illegal campaign fund transfers to the campaigns of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Attorney General George Jepsen, Treasurer Denise Nappier, Comptroller Kevin Lembo and Secretary of the State Denise Merrill. Expenses were listed as coordinated with reimbursement sought but none of the campaigns made payments back to the WFP.

In addition, the WFP State Account made a total of $30,000 in transfers over the last year to a federal Political Action Committee – CT Working Families Federal PAC-d.b.a.Take Back Congress. Those types of transfers can only be made to a federal “party” account. Regardless, the transfer never appeared as income on the FEC report for the WFP-Take Back Congress organization.

Two other statewide candidates were the beneficiaries of organizational contributions by the WFP but no campaigns were established by the candidates to receive them.

To read the details of the compliant go to: www.ctgop.org