Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, is amending several years' worth of personal financial disclosures because he had failed to properly disclose his wife's property.
Ralston's spokesman Marshall Guest called the omissions an oversight. He said Ralston realized it after he filed his 2010 financial disclosure before Thursday's deadline. The reports, filed once a year with the state ethics commission, detail elected officials' finances for the previous calendar year.
"We made a mistake and we’re being proactive in addressing it," Guest said.
Ralston reported his wife's ownership of the 10 acres in Dawsonville, valued at between $100,000 and $200,000, on the 2010 report, but had not disclosed it in prior years.
It's the same property for which Ralston last week paid about $1,300 in overdue property taxes after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution inquired about the debt. Guest said that error was also an oversight.
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