Tom Mullins

But congressional candidate’s fourth-quarter campaign finance report is available on his campaign Web site

Republican 3rd Congressional District candidate Tom Mullins has not filed his year-end financial report with the Federal Election Commission - which was due on Jan. 31 – because, he says, his “volunteer campaign treasurer is having difficulty converting the numbers using the forms on the FEC’s Web site.”

For now he has decided to post some information from his financial report on his campaign’s Web site.

“We posted the numbers on our blog this weekend,” Mullins told NMPolitics.net this morning. “We put them up after discovering the information had not been uploaded to the official government site on time.”

Mullins said the campaign will have to pay “a couple of hundred dollars in fines,” and hopes to sort out the problem before the next filing deadline at the end of March.

On his campaign Web site, Mullins indicated he collected $45,274 in  fourth quarter receipts, which is almost $7,000 more than his primary opponent Adam Kokesh.

Mullins also blogged that he spent $14,300.64 from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 and, at the end of 2009, had $30,973.36 cash on hand - significantly more than Kokesh, who reported having $4,863.13 on hand at the end of the year.

Kokesh’s campaign claims it raised more than $30,000 with a “birthday bomb” donation campaign tied to Kokesh’s 28th birthday on Monday.

Incumbent Democrat Rep. Ben Ray Lujan’s year-end report showed receipts of $112,073.84 in the final quarter and an election cycle total of $532,073.17. He ended ended 2009 with $284,852.61 on hand.