Campaign Panel to Pay $4,500 Penalty
The Federal Election Commission said Sunday that the 1982 Senate campaign committee of former Fresno, Calif., Mayor Daniel K. Whitehurst has agreed to pay a $4,500 civil penalty for accepting contributions exceeding the $5,000 limit for political action committees.
In addition, a Fresno-based group called Leadership for the ‘80s is paying a $700 civil penalty for making a $10,000 loan and providing $9,707 in in-kind contributions to Whitehurst in 1981 before he declared his candidacy.
Whitehurst, whose committee refunded the excess contributions, raised $457,000 in the 1982 primary, losing the Democratic senatorial nomination to then-Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. The seat later was won by the Republican mayor of San Diego, Pete Wilson.
Fred Eiland, an FEC spokesman, said Leadership for the ‘80s failed to register in Washington, as federal law requires, before it gave more than $1,000 to any candidate.
Whitehurst, now president of the Fresno Economic Development Corp., could not be reached for comment.
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