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D.C. Politics

Barbara J. Comstock, Va. GOPcandidate for U.S. House, failed toreport $85,000

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ByAntonio Olivo September 5

Northern Virginia congressional candidate Barbara J.

Comstockfailed to report that a public-relations companyshe owns took in a total of $85,000 in 2012 trying to help

Mitt Romney become president, an apparent breach of

congressional ethics rules.

On Friday, an aide to Comstock, the Republican nominee

in the race to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-

Va.), said that the oversight was unintentional and thatthe campaign was working to correct the problem after

being contacted by The Washington Post.

In January, Comstock, a state delegate representing parts

of Fairfax and Loudoun counties, noted her role as owner

and partner of the company in a statement of economic

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Assembly. The report said Comstock Strategies took in

ess than $50,000 the previous year.

In March, Comstocks congressional campaign filed a

federal financial disclosure reportnoting that the

candidate earned $27,000 in income from Comstock

Strategies in 2013. The report does not mention her role

with the company or how she got the money.

Instructions from the House Committee on Ethicsrequire

congressional candidates to declare all reportable assets,

including ownership interests in privately held

companies.

The committee also requires candidates with an

ownership interest in companies to report fees earned

above $5,000 and a list of clients who paid those

amounts.

Comstocks disclosure report does not mention the

$65,000 Comstock Strategies received in 2012 from the

Romney campaign or the $20,000 paid by the Republican

National Committee, although those groups disclosed the

fees in their own Federal Election Commission reports.

Comstocks disclosure report lists a host of other income

sources, including stocks, retirement funds and husband

Elwyn Chip Comstocks annual salary as a vice principal

at Oakton High School in Fairfax County. (He has since

retired from that job.)

On Friday, Comstocks campaign disclosed the names of

other Comstock Strategies clients who paid fees of more

than $5,000. They include the Workforce Fairness

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Institute, a conservative a vocacy group, an two pu ic-

relations companies.

Comstocks ownership of Comstock Strategies is no

secret, and we disclosed her salary, said political

consultant Ray Allen, speaking on behalf of the campaign.

When this was brought to our attention, we immediately

contacted the ethics committee, Allen said. We are

working with them to ensure that all the forms are filled

out correctly. We will be filing an amended report.

A spokesman for John W. Foust, a member of the Fairfax

County Board of Supervisors and Comstocks Democratic

opponent in the race, accused Comstock of trying to cover

up her past as a Republican political strategist to avoid

being seen as too partisan.

Its a little hard to believe that someone who made a

career out of being an attorney, an investigator and an

opposition researcher could have that big of an

oversight, said Shaun Daniels, campaign manager for

Foust. Shes been running away from her record and

running away from her past.

In his disclosure report, Foust a retired lawyer listed

his $67,450 annual supervisors salary, several hundred

thousand dollars in retirement funds and wife Marylin

Jeromes annual income of between $100,000 and

$250,000 as a partner in an obstetrics clinic in

Washington.

Antonio covers government, politics and other

regional issues in Fairfax County. He worked in Los

Angeles, New York and Chicago before joining the


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