• Clean Elections Commission considering heavy fine against Rep. Anna Abeytia • Abeytia originally faced $5,000 fine, commissioners want more • Abeytia failed to file campaign finance reports between September 2024 and April 2025

Clean Elections commissioners want to send a message to candidates who don’t file timely campaign finance reports – play ball, or pay up.

The Clean Elections Commission rejected a conciliation agreement in a 2-2 vote on Sept. 25 for Rep. Anna Abeytia, D-Phoenix, after she didn’t file any periodic campaign finance reports from Sept. 4, 2024, to April 21, 2025.

The proposed agreement would have originally assessed Abeytia with a $5,000 fine, but some commissioners felt that penalty fell short.

Abeytia received $53,000 of Clean Elections funds during the 2024

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