No campaign reports for 9 Philadelphia candidates

Nine candidates on next week's primary election ballot have failed to file reports on their campaign fund-raising and expenses - running up fines of at least $20 a day.

The reports were due last Friday - even from candidates who have raised virtually nothing and paid their own modest expenses. But as of Thursday afternoon, four candidates for Traffic Court judge, four candidates for City Council and one candidate for sheriff had not filed with either the city commissioners or the City Board of Ethics.

The Traffic Court candidates with missing reports are Robert Tuerk, Frederick Mari, Michael Horsey and John Adams, all seeking the Democratic nomination for a single vacancy on the court. The Council candidates include two Democratic at-large hopefuls, Humberto Perez and Michael Jones; Lamont Thomas, who is running as a Democrat in the 9th district, and one Republican, Sandra Stewart, unopposed for the GOP nomination in Northeast Philadelphia's 6th district. The candidate for sheriff is Democrat Jacque Whaumbush.

Those who could be reached generally said they'd been busy and overlooked the deadline and intended to correct the situation promptly.