As we've reported, a local Tea Party group, Americans for Prosperity Washington, has been accused of failing to disclose its top donors to the state as required by state elections law. (They were supposed to file with the Public Disclosure Commission within 30 days of forming last March, but didn't file any reports at all until after the election. The group's attack ads helped defeat a number of Democratic candidates in last year's elections, including state Sens. Eric Oemig (D-45) and Randy Gordon (D-41).

Unlike Moxie Media, which is being investigated for allegedly setting up shadow committees to help Democratic candidates, AFPW is being accused of failing to report its contributions at all. (AFWP did eventually report $30,000 in contributions, but Democrats estimate they've actually spent more like half a million.)

In today's Tacoma News Tribune, reporter Peter Callaghan has a rare interview with former AFPW chairman (and former KVI radio host) Kirby Wilbur. Wilbur told Callaghan he didn't know he had to file with the PDC, and that he's "willing to do what we need to do to rectify that.”

“We were not aware that until we started our voter education campaign that we had to file anything,” he said Friday.

“If I screwed up, I screwed up,” Wilbur told Callaghan. “It wasn’t deliberate."

Wilbur is currently running for chair of the Washington State Republican Party.