(The Center Square) – Washington state’s Public Disclosure Commission, at the behest of several progressive groups opposed to ballot initiatives to be decided in November, has accused voter advocacy group Let’s Go Washington of allegedly violating campaign finance laws related to gathering signatures for those initiatives.
Staff at the PDC filed administrative charges on Sept. 9 alleging Let’s Go Washington did not “accurately and timely” report how it spent money on each of the efforts to garner voter signatures on the six initiatives. PDC spent more than a year investigating the allegations.
Let’s Go Washington is also accused of failing to obtain and provide documentation from vendors hired to gather signatures. The PDC also claims Leg’s Go Washington failed to obtain and disclose information from vendors about its spending on subcontractors and did not produce requested campaign records.
After being issued a subpoena in July, Let’s Go Washington produced 9,000 pages of materials for the PDC, which will consider the charges in a special meeting Oct. 3.