James L. Lathrop, the Republican on the ballot for state general treasurer in the Nov. 8 general election missed Tuesday’s deadline for filing a required campaign-finance report due 28 days before an election.
Lathrop acknowledge the failure after his Democratic opponent, former Central Falls Mayor James A. Diossa, called attention to it in a press release Wednesday.
“I forgot,” Lathrop told The Providence Journal Thursday morning, saying he had confused the 28-day-before-an-election filing with regular quarterly filings. He said he will file the report Friday.
Missing the deadline comes with a $25 fine.
In a campaign that’s shaping up to be about who is more qualified to manage the state’s finances, including the $10 billion pension fund, Diossa faulted Lathrop for the Republican’s second gaffe in less than a month.
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In mid September, Lathrop called upon the state to reinstate cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, for state-managed municipal pension plans, even though the state’s overall system is underfunded. But the state treasurer’s office said that retirees in adequately funded municipal plans have already had COLAs reinstated.
