Kim Daniels dinged for late campaign finance report

State Rep. Kim Daniels, a first-term Democrat in Northwest Jacksonville’s House District 14, has been fined for filing a campaign finance report late earlier this summer.

Daniels missed the deadline for the June 29 report, per the Division of Elections, with the report eventually filed on July 7, resulting in a fine of $450.96.

That report covered the first three weeks of June, a period in which Daniels reported no fundraising and a primary expenditure of paying her campaign filing fee. The fine appears to be the maximum 25 percent of that filing fee.

Despite this glitch, Daniels appears to have a strong advantage in what is an open primary race in HD 14.

Daniels, a first-term lawmaker often friendly to GOP interests, has $47,227 raised with almost $28,000 of that on hand.

Much of that was Republican money. Democrats have called Daniels a DINO and worse off record, but for the second straight cycle, they seem unable to do anything about the GOP picking a winner in a Democratic primary.

Opponent Paula Wright is far behind in fundraising, with just $3,501 on hand.