Martin Wisckol has an interesting post over at Total Buzz in which he talks to Shirley Grindle about Janet Nguyen's illegal legal defense fund.

Grindle dismisses the Trung Nguyen/Mike Schroeder complaint filed against Janet Nguyen:

"It's a stupid complaint," she said. "It's nothing more than an effort to give a political opponent a bad name."

I'm wondering if Shirley's dislike for Mike Schroeder has trumped her dislike of campaign's evading her TIN CUP ordinance, because the above remark seems like a climbdown from Grindle's reaction when the story broke:

"If that isn't evasion, I don't know what is," she said. "They can't do this."

But they have, and continue to do so. As Martin points out, Janet still has not notified the Registrar of Voters with the identities of those three donors who gave in excess of the contribution limits -- something she was supposed to have done within 72 hours.

What gives? How hard can it possibly be to get the forms, sit down with a pen and fill it out for the three donors? And in the meantime, send out a press release listing the three donors for the sake of full disclosure.

Maybe Janet's campaign thinks they have 72 Venusian hours -- and if that were the case she'd still have plenty of time since a Venusian day equals 243 Earth days.

Although TIN CUP doesn't specify the notification must be done in 72 Earth hours, I think it's safe to assume that's what Shirley meant when she wrote it.

So again, what gives with the lack of disclosure? Blasting Turng and Schroeder is a red herring: their motivation is no mystery.

But if Janet has nothing to hide, then file the notification already.