DISD Trustee Price Falsifies Campaign Report

Dallas School Board Trustee Ron Price not only holds the distinction of the only domestic violence convict to sit on the Board, he now holds the record for late campaign reports--765 days combined as well as a blatantly falsified report filed on November 10.

Texas election laws require candidates and office holders to file campaign finance reports semi-annually and more often when the candidate is running opposed in an election. Price has filed 6 reports over the past two years. None of Price's reports in the past two years have been filed on time.

 The falsified report stems from a campaign finance report that Price was supposed to have filed in April, 2003 in connection with his re-election campaign. The report, a required 30-day-prior filing, was never filed.

On November 10, 2004, Price filed a report bearing a notarized date, under penalty of perjury, of April 1, 2003. 

Close inspection of the document used by Price shows it to have been created by the Texas Ethics Commission over seven months later on November 5, 2003.

The Texas Penal Code makes perjury committed "during or in connection with an official proceeding" a felony.