The Massachusetts Republican Party says that its personal audit of its whopping debt exhibits that no less than $262,620 in media invoices ought to correctly be billed to the marketing campaign of Geoff Diehl, who misplaced his marketing campaign for governor final yr.
“Thus far, while we continue to review various documents, we have determined that at least two invoices that were included in the total billed to the MassGOP for Diehl campaign TV ads should in fact be billed to the Diehl for Governor campaign,” MassGOP Chairwoman Amy Carnevale wrote to Bruce Mittman, the president of Needham advertising and marketing company MITTCOM, in a letter dated Thursday.
In whole, MITTCOM had billed almost $440,000 to the state social gathering — a part of the massive $600,000 debt the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) mentioned the social gathering was on the hook for.
At the time of the audit discovering, Carnevale — who beat out former Chairman Jim Lyons, who was operating for a 3rd time period, in January — wrote that $404,000 of the unpaid invoices she inherited upon assuming workplace had been really media-related bills from the Diehl marketing campaign “but incredibly were billed well after Election Day to the MassGOP.”
The Diehl marketing campaign, which was strongest at roughly $153,000 firstly of February 2022, closed final month at a $0 stability, based on OCPF information.
Diehl didn’t reply to repeated Herald efforts for touch upon this story.
In specific, Carnevale finds, based on Thursday’s letter, two adverts that ran on WBZ-TV in October and November forward of the gubernatorial election for the Geoff Diehl marketing campaign, which whole $17,825 between them. The Federal Communication Commission filings related to the adverts had been signed by two staff of the Diehl marketing campaign.
“Based on the research of MassGOP staff, we have conclusively determined that these invoices are not the responsibility of the party,” Carnevale wrote, later including, “Therefore, the MassGOP could not legally pay this invoice even if it wanted to do so.”
The MassGOP additionally challenges spots that they are saying MITTCOM claims had been positioned on the History Channel on behalf of the state social gathering, including that the social gathering’s govt director John Milligan emailed Mittman with a sequence of inquiries to again up these spot claims.
Herald reporter Chris Van Buskirk contributed to this report.
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