As adults with strict budgets, bills to pay and families to take care of, most of us (I hope) take a close look at every major purchase to make sure it’s justifiable and necessary. Unfortunately, many new political candidates running in local elections don’t tend to do the same when it comes to campaign costs [...]
While political campaign ethics are often an issue in large, high-profile elections, local candidates in small districts rarely need to have more than a rudimentary understanding of campaign and election law. Still, it’s good to occasionally go over the basics, and I want to take a moment to focus on a few of the political [...]
One common mistake made by new candidates in local elections is not including their political campaign committee disclaimer on materials that are paid for from their campaign fund. Let’s take a quick look at political campaign disclaimer requirements to make sure that you don’t run afoul of election ethics laws in your state. A printed [...]
If you’re a local election candidate who is running a for office for the first time, you might have a few questions about how to set up a political campaign bank account. While it isn’t a very difficult thing to do, starting your campaign bank account is an important step in the political election process, [...]
There is one thing that political candidates in both small local elections and politicians who are running high-profile campaigns have in common: they both have to establish a political campaign committee and keep track of all financial transactions that take place over the course of their campaign. Starting a political campaign committee is one of [...]