Register of Probate Elizabeth Moreau Did Not File Financial Disclosures for Alderman at Large Campaign
MANCHESTER, NH — Former Ward 6 Alderman Elizabeth Moreau, who currently serves as the Hillsborough County Register of Probate, apparently did not file any financial disclosures related to her unsuccessful run for the office of alderman at large.
The Manchester City Clerk website lists no filings by Moreau. Also, there is no political action committee supporting Elizabeth Moreau listed on the website. Candidate PACs also are required to comply with financial disclosure rules.
According to the City Clerk website:
[E]ach candidate and each political committee with combined contributions or combined expenditures equal to or exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) shall file a disclosure report with the City Clerk within ten (10) days immediately preceding and ten (10) days immediately preceding a municipal election. Each incumbent official with combined contributions or combined expenditures equal to or exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) in any quarter of the calendar year must also file the same report within thirty (30) days of the end of each calendar quarter. [Emphasis in original]
Candidates who do not reach the $500 threshold “shall file a signed, notarized statement to that effect.”
And email sent to the City Clerk’s office asking about Moreau’s reporting status was sent on Friday, October 22nd.
Seven of the eight candidates for alderman at large filed financial disclosures. The City Charter requires a filing 10 days before the primary and 10 days afterwards. Of the seven, Anthony Harris filed a disclosure 10 days before the primary, but did not file a 10 days after disclosure.
And email sent to the City Clerk’s office asking whether there have been no financial disclosures has yet to be answered.
Moreau received 2,177 votes for alderman at large in the September primary, good for only a fifth place finish. The four candidates receiving the most votes move on to the general election in November.
Top vote getters Joe Kelly Levasseur, Dan Goonan and June Trisciani 3,557; 3,475; and 3,398, respectively.
Incumbent Daniel O’Neil, who has served as one of the two aldermen of large since the position was created in the 1990s, came in fourth with 3,138 votes.
