{"id":45140,"date":"2019-10-24T14:48:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=45140"},"modified":"2019-10-24T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:49:00","slug":"lee-county-election-office-does-not-understand-the-election-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/10\/lee-county-election-office-does-not-understand-the-election-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County Election Office Does Not Understand the Election Laws &#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lee-county-elections.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lee-county-elections.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lee-county-elections-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Vicki Collins Public Information Officer Lee County\nElections Office stated to the Lehigh Acres Gazette today by phone that the Lee\nCounty Election Office is not going to do anything Lee County Sheriff Candidate\nthat has NO disclosures on his campaign website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collins stated that this is an ETHICS issue not an election issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BUT Florida Elections statues state that proper disclosure\nmust be done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FS 106.143<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPolitical advertisement paid for and approved by\n&nbsp;&nbsp;(name of candidate)&nbsp;&nbsp;, &nbsp;&nbsp;(party\naffiliation)&nbsp;&nbsp;, for &nbsp;&nbsp;(office sought)&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201d;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FS 106.1439<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any electioneering communication, other than a telephone\ncall, shall prominently state: \u201cPaid electioneering communication paid for by\n&nbsp;&nbsp;(Name and address of person paying for the communication).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does the election office understand the law, they do have\nthe ability to fine Coach Ray today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, Coach Ray or know as RAY RAY on Facebook is\nrunning for Lee County Sheriff his website at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coachrayforleesheriff.com\/\">https:\/\/coachrayforleesheriff.com\/<\/a>&nbsp;has\n\u201cNO political\u201d disclosures on it. On his donate page \u201cNO disclosure\u201d &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coachrayforleesheriff.com\/donate-now\">https:\/\/coachrayforleesheriff.com\/donate-now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicki Collins Public Information Officer Lee County Elections Office stated to the Lehigh Acres Gazette today by phone that the Lee County Election Office is not going to do anything&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}