Jumpstart Vallejo, Curtis Laffety, and John Cummings

Campaign Late Filer/Reporter

Fine: $14,000

FPPC No. 16/19958

Jumpstart Vallejo is a local primarily formed committee that supported candidates in the November 8, 2016 and November 6, 2018 General Elections. Curtis Laffety was the Committee’s treasurer from August 4, 2016 through June 11, 2018, and John Cummings served as treasurer from June 11, 2018 through the present. In 2016, the Committee and Laffety failed to timely report independent expenditures on a pre-election campaign statement and a semiannual campaign statement, in violation of Government Code Section 84211 (1 count), and failed to timely file 24-Hour Reports for contributions and late independent expenditures, in violation of Government Code Sections 84203 and 84204 (1 count). In 2017, the Committee and Laffety failed to timely file two semiannual campaign statements, and in 2019, the Committee and Cummings also failed to timely file two semiannual campaign statements, in violation of Government Code Section 84200 (1 count).  In 2018, the Committee and Cummings failed to timely file two semiannual campaign statements and two pre-election campaign statements, in violation of Government Code Sections 84200 and 84200.5 (1 count), and failed to timely file 24-Hour Reports, in violation of Government Code Sections 84203 and 84204 (2 counts).