An administrative law judge fined former state Rep. Tim Dore of Elizabeth $2,000 for failing to report a round of robo-calls, featuring, coincidentally, former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez.

Dore’s re-election campaign last summer also failed to accurately report some radio ads as “electioneering communications,” according to the ruling by Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer.

The findings against the Republican former lawmaker were part of a handful of accusations raised by the Campaign Integrity Watchdog. The rest were dismissed.

Dore lost the Republican primary to Kimmi Lewis. She had 7,439 votes. He got 3,410.

A vendor provided the 6,070 robo-calls to voters in House District 64 on June 10, and on June 12 billed Dore’s campaign $364.20 for them. That expenditure, however, wasn’t reported on Dore’s June. 27 campaign finance report.

Dore’s July 18 report indicated Olson Strategies & Advertising had been paid $5,740 for “consultant and professional services,” but it wasn’t clear to Spencer whether those services included the robo-calls.

Colorado election law also requires candidates to file a more detailed report after they spend $1,000 or more in a calendar year on “electioneering communications.”

Dore’s campaign reported $7,428 worth of radio and print ads as advertising but not electioneering communications. Spencer said they were the latter.

“Any other conclusion is highly unlikely,” he wrote in his rule.

Dore’s attorney was former Colorado Republican Party chairman Ryan Call.

“Candidates for office who deliberately evade the legal disclosure requirements for campaign activity betray the public trust,” said Matt Arnold, the director of Campaign Integrity Watchdog.  “Elected officials – and those seeking to obtain or retain elected office – cannot be above the laws they impose on the rest of us.  Such ‘official’ violators must be held accountable to the law, so that ‘some animals – are not more equal than others,’ and this ruling against Tim Dore’s campaign does just that.”

Last year Arnold, who identifies as a Republican, was accused of using his watchdog role to get the party to use his campaign compliance company to “be spared any headache of having to deal with future complaints (frankly, that’s of inestimable value on that count alone).”

His e-mail, obtained by the conservative Colorado Peak Politics website, ended:

“I’m willing to offer this generous deal in the interest of avoiding disruption to what is, after all, MY party – albeit a party that has proven less than faithful in fulfilling its obligations to me and mine – in a critical election year.

“But, Bygones… IF we can reach an agreement.

“Alternatively, ‘the beatings will continue until morale improves.’ ;)”