This letter is to clear up the question of whether “Frary faces fines,” as asserted by a bold headline in the Sun Journal last month. As far as I can determine from talking with the Federal Election Commission, I don’t.

I’ve filed an amended report, explaining why I did not provide bank account information in November. My campaign had no bank account in November.

The FEC now has the missing zip codes for the newspapers where I placed ads, and they now know I paid money to those newspapers for political ads, not for…well, I have no idea what they thought a candidate pays newspapers for. They also now know that the source of my funding was the sale of my own stocks.

Contrary to the editorial (June 8), I did not “refuse” to disclose information to the FEC. I never refuse information to federal bureaucrats. I am certainly guilty of “disdain.” Disdain for federal, state, local and corporate bureaucracies is the birthright of all Americans.

The services of a professional accountant would have avoided the petty omissions, but would have cost $4,000, which I cannot afford. I’d rather take the chance on a $200 fine.

The suggestion I would not have tolerated such sloppiness from my students is inaccurate. Minor infractions of my syllabus never bothered me. It was the inability to make simple distinctions, such as between a candidate spending public money and one spending his own, that I found impossible to tolerate.

Does anyone suspect me of cheating myself?

John Frary, Farmington

GOP candidate for U.S. Congress, 2nd District of Maine