According to a recent piece in the Edmond Sun, it appears that a local PAC has no intention of following what appears to be basic ethics laws.

okiepolitics picked up the story from Edmond before the election. Edmondites rejected a proposition to build a public safety center 61-39. A resistance group publicly associated with former mayor Randel Shadid called “The Committee to Stop Higher Property Taxes” has yet to report campaign contributions.

Were the PAC with less than $500 in expenditures, or the acts of a lone individual, then this lack of record would be legal without doubt. However, as quoted by the Edmond Sun, Ethics Commisison executive director Marilyn Hughes notes that the Political Subdivision Ethics Act “require[s] committees which have collected contributions or made expenditures exceeding $500 to register within 10 days of exceeding the limit, and then afterwards to file reports if this includes committees formed to support or oppose a municipal ballot measure.”

It is clear that several citizens (Randel Shadid, Pete Reeser and Barry Rice, among others) were part of this anti-Public Safety Center movement. Shadid confessed to the Sun that his group “collected more than $14,000.” These criteria (multiple people + combination of money) qualifies as a “committee” by state ethics laws.

Hmmm.

Maybe Shadid failed legalese. (See above.) Then again, Shadid is a lawyer.
Maybe Shadid failed basic math. $14,000 > $500. Then again, that is obvious.
Maybe Shadid failed the ethics codes. Then again…