UPDATED: Pro-Shannon Group Admits Error In Filings
Group supporting T.W. Shannon makes paperwork error
By RANDY KREHBIEL, World Staff Writer
A group supporting former Oklahoma House Speaker T.W. Shannon for U.S. Senate is reorganizing after what it says was an administrative error that caused it to be incorporated as a for-profit corporation.
Charles Spies, a Washington attorney prominent in political finance law, said Oklahomans for a Conservative Future was intended to be a non-profit and has conducted itself as one since it was organized last month.
OCF has spent more than $300,000 in support of Shannon’s Senate candidacy. The World and several watchdog organizations published stories over the past two weeks pointing out that as a for-profit corporation, Oklahomans for a Conservative Future could avoid most disclosure requirements.
“An administrative error was made in the filing of incorporation papers with the state of Oklahoma,” said Charles Spies. “It should have been filed as a not-for-profit corporation.”