Campaign Disclosure: 10 Day Post Primary
If you were a candidate for election involved in a primary earlier this month, your campaign finance disclosure should include a 32 day pre-primary report, an 11 day pre-primary report, and a 10 day post-primary report. For instance, here is Lynn Dearmyer’s list of reports:
Rick Zydel:
But the victor of that three-way battle, Pat Burke, is late. As of this morning, his pre-primary reports have shown up.
They weren’t there yesterday – the pre-primary report was 6 weeks late, and the 11 day was a month late. That’s either the negligence of a crap treasurer or something intentional. I asked him on Twitter:
.@ElectPatBurke where are your 32 day / 11 day pre-primary and 10 day post-primary disclosures?
— Alan Bedenko (@buffalopundit) September 24, 2013
@buffalopundit They were submitted. I have the email receipt to prove it. Trying to find out why they haven’t been posted.
— Pat Burke (@ElectPatBurke) September 24, 2013
@ElectPatBurke who is your treasurer?
— Alan Bedenko (@buffalopundit) September 24, 2013
The last question wasn’t answered.
Looking at the newly appearing disclosures, in the 32-day, Burke reports $625 in unitemized proceeds from a mid-July fundraiser, which cost about $100 for pizza and beverages. Burke’s campaign bought him $113 pair of shoes for walking door to door, and $213 for “campaign attire” at JC Penney’s – those are new ones on me. He ended the period with $2660 on hand.
Burke raised another $823 in unitemized contributions at an August fundraiser, and got $50 from Mark Schroeder’s campaign fund, and $250 from Savarino. Robert Sroda donated $1,000 in mid-August. He pulled in about $3,000 in that period, and spent $3551 on direct mail with Zenger Group, which does tons of work for all sorts of candidates.
But we don’t have the 10 day post-primary report, which will show everything that Burke spent in the days leading up to the election. There’s nothing controversial in Burke’s disclosures – no one’s going to make a stink about the suit and shoes, funny as it might be – but the lateness is troubling.
Turning to this year’s breakaway nominal Democrat shit-stirring, the WNY Progressive PAC finished this year’s primary election cycle with -$18,000. Negative eighteen thousand.
Steve Pigeon donated a little over $6,000 for stamps and Robocalls – (remember the pro-Fruscione, anti-Hamister mailers in the Falls had stamps on them?) Tim Kennedy ally and cancer peddlers AJ Wholesale gave another $10,000. Tim Kennedy’s own Senate account ponied up another $40,000 – that makes a total of $125,000 from various open and closed Tim Kennedy campaign accounts.
On the expenditure side, $25,000 was paid to “Landon LLC”, which sounds a lot like Pigeon’s own Landen Associates. Robocalls were done for $600 by “Van” in “Summerville [sic] MA”. Gia Marketing was paid, as was a Michael Darby, who was paid about $20,000 for a month’s worth of “consulting”.
Pigeon himself “loaned” the committee another $70,000, leaving total liabilities of $90,000. Forget for a fact that these are the people who brought us the good government activism of Pedro Espada, here’s how they ended up the cycle:
They have Dick Dobson and Barbara Miller-Williams to show for it. One could credibly fund at least 20 successful county legislative races for that kind of money.
$163,167.51 in expenses in ten days? This PAC was “formed” on August 22nd. That’s a lot of dough to flow through an entity that was just created. Sounds like an investigation is warranted by the Board of Elections.
LOL. There’s a punch line missing.
Some of it flew into the Pigeon Nest 🙂
I would bet the 25K for LANDON LLC was Steve Pigeon’s skim, or heck, probably one of his skims on this account.
Maybe it was Michael Landon’s ghost? 😀
Here’s that breakdown again: 😀