On Monday, June 18, 2012 I resigned as Treasurer for Joel Carlton Tyner 
Congressional Candidate for House in the 19th District in the State of 
New York.  This decision was not made in haste.  Rather, I had struggled 
with the decision for weeks often voicing my concerns with Mr. Tyner.
When I filed my first FEC report as Mr. Tyner's treasurer - the April 2012 
Quarterly - I informed Mr. Tyner that there was over a $3,000 discrepancy 
between his bank account balance and the cash-on-hand reported to the 
FEC.  He explained that he had not kept many receipts or had lost them.  
This baffled me because Mr. Tyner is a five term County Legislator in 
Dutchess County.  As such, he has years of experience with financial 
disclosure laws in New York State that, like the FEC, require him to maintain
and disclose all money raised and spent.  I had deep reservations about 
remaining on as his treasurer as I realized I would never be able to reconcile
 his bank account with the FEC reports I filed.  I remained because I am a 
progressive Green Party member whose values seemed to be greatly in line 
with Mr. Tyner's.
In June 2012 when I filed the 12 Day Pre-Primary Report with the FEC, I 
discovered that the gap had widened between the cash-on-hand reported 
to the FEC and the actual bank account balance despite the fact I had 
repeatedly reminded Mr. Tyner that I needed receipts to account for and 
match the many cash withdrawals he was making almost daily out of the 
bank account.  To help me account for his expenditures, I had the bank 
issue him a debit/credit card and set up an EZ Pass account for him.  He 
verbally told me he was using the EZ Pass.  However, each time I checked 
his EZ Pass account online, no transactions were on his account other than 
the original $25 fee for setting up the EZ Pass account.
There have been numerous fundraisers to support Mr. Tyner's congressional 
campaign.  On only two of these have I received cash donations to deposit 
(the May 26 Art Auction in Cottekill, NY and the fundraiser at River Station 
in Poughkeepsie, NY.)  I am sure there must have been other cash received 
but I was never informed of any.  All checks received were photocopied 
before being deposited by both myself and Mr. Tyner.  Again, I am perplexed 
as to why cash received was neither given to me to be deposited nor 
reported to me to include in the FEC reports.
I have been informed by others working as volunteers on the campaign that
 they had given Mr. Tyner over $600 in receipts to be given to me.  I never 
received them and therefore was unable to report those expenditures to the
 FEC though cash was given to volunteers by Mr. Tyner to reimburse them. 
 These volunteers have quit feeling demoralized and deeply concerned that 
it may appear as though they used the campaign money for personal 
expenditures when indeed it was used for voter outreach in many countries 
throughout the 19th congressional district.
 As a treasurer, it is my responsibility to deposit funds into the bank account, 
record disbursements with receipts, and to pay bills.  It is also my 
responsibility to reconcile accounts so the amount of cash-on-hand filed 
with the FEC matches penny for penny with the balance in the bank 
account.   I resigned because it was impossible for me to fulfill my 
responsibilities as treasurer.
	
Misha Fredericks
New Paltz, NY