Republican Senate candidate Craig Wilcox is calling for the resignation of Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino as talk of his now-defunct campaign committee's violation of campaign finance rules continues to percolate.
The Illinois State Board of Elections recently deadlocked 4-4 among partisan lines on whether Mautino's campaign should be fined.
The case against Mautino goes back at least two-years and revolves around a pair of lingering issues.
First, his campaign spent upwards of $225,000 over a 16-year period beginning in 1999 at a single service station in his legislative district for gas and repairs of vehicles owned by him, his family members and various associates. The rule regarding such spending stipulates that the campaign committee only reimburses vehicle owners on a per-mile basis for the use of their vehicles for campaign purposes.
In the other instance, Mautino's campaign committee wrote checks in the name of the bank and cashed them from the committee's checking account to the tune of $150,000. Receipts were kept infrequently and no unused cash from the campaign expenditures was ever returned, according to the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI).
Mautino has refused to talk to the board about any of the details in question, fueling Wilcox's suspicions and anger.
Things have been wayward in Springfield for so long many now seem to have lost their way, Wilcox said.
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