A few of you have already been discussing the campaign finance reports that were due a few days ago to the Department of Elections. There are still quite a few reports missing but use this as a thread to discuss anything interesting that you see.
What I’ve noticed:
State Treasurer
Chip Flowers has raised an impressive $27,000 mainly from lawyers and with a $200,000 loan to himself he’s looking good for cash. Velda Jones-Potter’s finance report hasn’t appeared yet.
Auditor
Richard Korn raised $9400 this year, mostly from business and labor groups.
Ken Matlusky has raised $17,000 this year which looks to be mainly from himself and family but with some individual donors. He’s also listing the names of his small dollar donors. He’s spent almost $19,000! Is he getting the bang for his advertising buck? It looks like he’s spent a lot on radio advertising.
State Representatives
Two primary candidates, Ed Osienski in the 24th and James Maravelias in the 27th have raised a lot of money from labor groups. Osienski raised $13,000 and Maravelias raised $17,000. Osienski’s primary opponent Kay Gallogly has only raised $1000 from individuals with an $11,000 loan to herself.
New Castle County Sheriff
Trinidad Navarro had an eyebrow-raising haul of $33,000, mostly individual donors. Mike Walsh’s finance report hasn’t been posted yet. It will be interesting to see what his looks like.
New Castle County Council
Mike Protack has a decent haul of almost $9000. Interestingly, $6000 of it comes from donors <$100. Janet Kilpatrick has raised $6400. Some of Kilpatrick's donors include Greg Lavelle, Bill Tansey, Citizens for Sorenson, Dick Cathcart and Nick Manokalos. She's definitely the establishment pick.
Also I'm checking the qualified candidates site and see a few new names, mostly from the Independence Party of Delaware.
For U.S. Senate - Glen Miller
For U.S. House of Representatives - Earl Lofland
Blue Enigma candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Jeffrey Brown
Beau Biden has his a challenger! Independence Party of Delware's Doug Campbell