For three months now we have been posting stories about Lee McGroarty breaking his signed pledge to post ALL campaign donations online. The pledge was signed by McGroarty as part of receiving the endorsement of the Conservative Party of California.
The Conservative Party came to his defense this week claiming McGroarty needed to hire more staff before he could post the list of donors.
With in a few hours of the Conservative party's comment McGroarty posted a copy of his FEC filings on his campaign web site, but still is not listing all of his donations. The FEC requires candidates to list all donations over $200 combined for an election cycle from one person. But posting the FEC forms does not give us the names of those who gave $199 or less.
The McGroarty campaign is required by the FEC to keep an internal list of the names and amounts so they can report the donor information when the amount totals more than $200. So the campaign already has the information required to comply with the pledge.
According to his last FEC filing, McGroarty has received $900 in unitemized contributions, meaning the total of donations that do not have to be reported. McGroarty has received a total of $8250 in donations during this election cycle. So McGroarty has not provided the names of more than 10% of his donations.
The text of the pledge,
"I further pledge to post all donations on my website."
"All" doesn't mean only the ones required by law.
McGroarty is running against Rep. Gary Miller, Phil Liberatore and David Su for the Republican nomination in the 42nd Congressional district.
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