Griswold gets a free pass

Well, as I suspected, candidate for Mesa Mayor Rex Griswold is let off the hook for his fundraising blunders. And we're surprised that people don't trust the city government?

The guy was 8 months late on a campaign finance violation.

As one of my commenters pointed out in my earlier entry and its also mentioned in the article, there was a chance that the cap could have been raised $590 a day for this violation. So taking the $6,120 number that I had guessed for the triple penalty, plus the $590 a day, and Claudia Walters and Scott Smith should have been able to raise something like $147,720 in additional funds without having to follow the regular limitations.

Instead, the City Attorney let him off with less than a slap on the wrist. No action was taken. None. Even when you are accidentally speeding, you still get a ticket. Whatever happened to ignorance of the law is no excuse?

The county campaign finance manager said that she has seen nothing like it, yet its apparent okay to do in Mesa.