The 30-Day Campaign Finance Reports
The filing deadline for the Delaware primary is Wednesday, August 14. As I start this, there are already 10 pages of filings at the Department Of Elections site.
This article will be a work-in-progress as we will update it as the DOE site is updated, and as I get around to stuff. There’s simply too much to catch up on all at once.
The Big Story, though, is likely to remain the Big Story. That is the overriding involvement of Third Party advertisers in the election for Governor.
We’ll start there. I’ll first say that we don’t necessarily have the final 30-day reports from those Third Party advertisers as the deadline for activity to be covered in the reports is August 12.
Having said that, here’s what we have so far.
Citizens For A New Delaware Way is the 3rd Party Advertiser set up by TransPerfect sorehead Phil Shawe. Pretty sure they’re behind those anti-BHL TV ads. So far, they have reported spending over $234 K. There will be more.
Remember People For A Healthy Delaware? The Little PAC That Could? Well, it now has served as a pass-through to funnel $475 K to Bethany Hall-Long’s campaign. Literally. It raised about $475 K this year, and then, on July 12, transferred the entire amount to the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association, which is the primary Third Party advertiser for BHL. An incredible amount of money was ferried to People For A Healthy Delaware through the Delaware and New Jersey Laborers’ Unions. Is that Jimmy Maravelias? I want to know. Because here are the figures: Laborers’ Political League of Delaware–$100,000; New Jersey State Laborers’ PAC–$100,000; Growing Economic Opportunities–$100,000. So, who, I wondered, was behind the Growing Economic Opportunities PAC. I checked with Open Secrets. All of its contributions came from, wait for it, the Laborers Eastern Region Organizing Fund. That’s a total of $300,000 from the Laborers to fund BHL’s campaign. I want to know: Who is behind this?
The Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association has spent virtually the entire $475K already on media for Bethany Hall Long, according to their finance reports. All funneled from various Laborers’ PACs controlled by Jimmy Maravelias.
His raiding the Laborers’ PAC’s is even more obscene when one looks at the Delaware Building Trades PAC reports. Two filings: In both instances, their balance starts at zero, there are no recorded receipts, but there are two expenditures–one for $5000 for a airplane banner on behalf of BHL, and another for over $12 K for both printed and digital media for BHL. Why use your members’ dues when you can raid regional Laborers’ PACs? Are there any remaining honest union people who can sanction Jimmy M for this?
Collin O’Mara has more modest expenditures on his behalf through the League Of Conservation Voters ($193 K, virtually all of it for digital media) and the NRDC Action Votes Federal PAC ($100 K, all of it for digital media).
You may notice quite a few committees with negligible balances that have filed both the 30-day report and filed all the rest of their reports for the remainder of the year. They represent committees that aren’t active, but have chosen not to fold their committees. The multiple reports reflect the committees’ intent to engage in no activity for the rest of the year.
Attention–Reporters: There may be a story here for you. If you go to page 10 of the DOE Campaign Finance Reports (at least as of 11:55 am today), you will note that Ernest ‘Trippi’ Congo has just amended every single one of his campaign finance reports dating back to 2016. One does not do this without some, um, strong encouragement from someone in authority. Either the Department of Elections and/or the AG’s office. This story takes on more urgency in light of the fact that Bethany Hall-Long has seen fit to hand Congo $475,000 to, pardon the expression, undertake some sort of opioid prevention project despite his not having any experience whatsoever in the field. Oh, and yet more in the form of an ’emergency’ grant. This stinks. Perhaps BHL found a kindred spirit in a fellow campaign scofflaw. $475K could buy Congo a lot of sympathy–and other stuff. Gee, ya think that him amending those reports and the State Auditor inspecting his grant proposal could be related?
Let’s see what Jeff Taschner’s DSEA is up to. Specifically, the DSEA Third Party PAC. It appears that, each time they engage in activity, they file a new report. Nothing wrong with that:
August 5: $12.5K for design for several D legislators.
August 6: $57.5K for design and placement–$42K for BHL, $15K for Kyle Evans Gay
August 8: $40K for design and placement for direct mail for BHL.
August 9: $16K for four D legislative challengers. Some good ones, including Branden FletcherDominguez, Frank Burns, and Claire Snyder-Hall. So, not everything they do sucks.
You can tell a campaign’s priorities by their contributors. Take Marjorie Lopez Waite, for example. Please. Let’s see–the anti-union Merit PAC: $6oo. ‘Act Together For Kids’, yet another PAC affiliated with that First State Educate network: $600. Eleuthere DuPont (will someone tell me his American name?): $600 (he tried to give $1200, but the second $600 was returned). Noted developers Christopher Schell and Jerome Heisler: $600 each. Debra (Tony’s wife and BHL’s fundraising chair) DeLuca: $250. I’m sure you can find many more.
Remember No Labels? $100,000 in the bank and no place to send it.
Kathy McGuiness raised $68K. Let’s see who the miscreants who contributed are. Alan Levin: $300. Christopher Schell: $600. Lumpy Carson: $500. Delaware Building & Construction Trades: $600. Friends (?) For Pete Schwartzkopf: $600. John Paradee: $300. Hmmm–something called SIABAG, LLC–$600, and something called Sibag, LLC–$600–both with the identical address. Somebody? Anybody? Tatiana Copeland: $600.
Both Mark Rendon and Claire Snyder Hall have raised admirable war chests. Unlike KMG, virtually all of the contributions are from individuals, and the vast majority of the donations come from Delawareans. While I’m not involved in that campaign, I have to think that KMG is headed for a third place finish.
Just saw Stephen Jankovic‘s campaign report. He’s running in that three-way D primary in RD 10 to replace the retiring Sean Matthews. Stick a fork in that campaign. $540 raised.
Memo to the American Council Of Engineering Companies Of Delaware: You can’t contribute $1200 for a state legislative race. You contributed $1200 to both Rep. Mike Smith and Kevin Hensley. Make sure they give that money back.
Who do the cops want? The TROOPERS PAC maxed out to Our PAL Val, Bill Bush, and Trinidad Navarro.
Progressive Dems Of Delaware maxed out to Claire Snyder-Hall, Coby Owens, Eric Morrison, Kamela Smith, Monica Shockley-Porter, and Terrell Williams.
The FOP State PAC maxed out to Bill Bush and sent $1200 to Ruth Briggs King, a Republican running for Lt. Governor.
Not only do the Western Region Rethugs invite Election Deniers to speak at their soirees, they too have exceeded legal campaign limits with their contributions. $1300 to Brenda Menella For House and $1300 to Friends Of David Hansperger. Now you know. Now you know what to do.
Say…do we have a John Carney Dark Money Third Party PAC? Sure looks like it. It’s called PAC 302, with contributions from Citigroup, three ‘Complete Care’ facilities, $35 K from something called the ‘Grow Delaware PAC’, $5K from Highmark and $10K from Riverfront Hotel. Wait, we’re not done with the money three-card monte yet. After raising this money, PAC 302 has sent virtually the entire amount to something called Citizens For Wilmington’s Future, based, as you might expect, in Alexandria, Virginia. Only one direct contribution to a candidate. Yep, John Carney.
Holy fuck! This Change Can’t Wait PAC. Virtually every plutocrat you can name. They raised over $800K this cycle and spent almost $700K of it. Is this PAC backing Matt Meyer? Can’t tell from the expenditures. If so, it’s scary.
The Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association reports ponying up $125K for Bethany.
Kyle Evans Gay‘s report is up, and it reflects a juggernaut. It combines grassroots donors and some of Delaware’s highly-connected. She raised over $223,000, and has around $184K available for the stretch run. Was planning to write up that race today. Nothing I see here changes my perspective on how this contest will play out.
This is as good a time as any to give a shout-out to Patrick Jackson of the Department Of Elections. I don’t know how he and his team are doing it, but they are posting these reports really quickly.
Kidskidskids, for the umpteenth time, you can’t donate more than $600 to a state legislative campaign. PAC Local Union 451 (Ironworkers) either didn’t get the memo or didn’t give a shit. $1200 to Ed Osienski’s campaign, $750 to Our PAL Val’s campaign, and $1200 for Walsh For The 9th (Sen. Jack Walsh).
A couple of days ago, we speculated about a Carney Third Party PAC. No further need to speculate. Citizens For Wilmington’s Future filed their report. It’s a Carney Third Party PAC. Not sure that the report is accurate as it does not reflect the cash bomb that PAC 302 dumped into Citizens For Wilmington’s Future. It reports about $13K in receipts, with all of it being spent on a Carney mailer.
Ex-cop Bob Williams, who is running for NCC Council President, raised money from cops and, of course, the Building Trades. Among his expenditures: $100 to Our PAL Val, who has run interference for the cops since she got her ‘job’ as Executive Director of the Police Athletic League.
In marked contrast, Jason Hoover, who is running for the same position, raised 3 times as much as Williams ($22K to Williams’ approximate $7K), all of it from individual donors.
Citizens For A New Delaware Way, sore loser Phil Shawe’s PAC, received an infusion of, wait for it, $1 million from Shawe. Has about $600K remaining. Those anti-BHL ads aren’t going anywhere.
Tracey Miller has won the $$ battle over Ade Kuforiji in RD 34. In fact, doesn’t look like Kuforiji joined the battle. He started with about $5000 and raised–$300. Spent less than $1000. Meaning, he should have enough left over for his next vanity campaign. Miller started with $8K, raised $14K, and has spent $5000. For some reason, she paid $298 for Friends Of Val Longhurst. You’d have to ask her why. Yes, she’ll need to raise more for the General, but she will be competitive, at least.
Mike Ramone has raised over $76K for his gubernatorial primary campaign. The duPonts and Copelands are well represented as they likely (and incorrectly) view this as a belated return to relevance. I mean, even Dr. Oz won the primary. The general, though?
Glad to see that Eric Morrison has raised a lot of money to try to stave off the challenge of Charter School advocate Marjorie Lopez Waite. Started with $40K, raised another $25K, and has plenty left for the homestretch. Several legislators and retired legislators. Not Our PAL Val, though.
If/when John Carney loses in his run to be Mayor of Wilmington, it won’t be due to a lack of funding. Setting aside his dark money third party PAC we mentioned earlier, he added $162K to his existing $108 K, which was presumably transferred over from his Governor’s campaign. The miscreants who contributed are too numerous to mention. Check out the report and choose the ones you can’t stand. He’s spent a lot as well. Over $200K. Makes you wonder why he hasn’t put this contest away…until you realize it’s John Carney we’re talking about. I do have one question, though, and perhaps someone can answer it. Why are all these liquor stores, at least half of which aren’t in Wilmington, ponying up $250 each? I also found notable the number of returned contributions.
Val Gould, candidate for NCC Council President, raised about $11K, and, with loans, raised about $15.5K. Regardless of how this campaign turns out, they have a bright political future should they choose to pursue it. I’m all for it–and yes, Val has my vote.
Our PAL Val Longhurst has raised a lot of money–and she’ll need all of it. Started the year with $160K, and raised another $100K. This doesn’t reflect overwhelming support for Longhurst, this reflects the recognition that, if you don’t pony up and if she wins, she will exact retribution on you. As in, your bills won’t go anywhere. I’ve spent a lot of time campaigning on behalf of Kamela Smith down in that district. I’m telling you–all the money in the world can’t overcome a great grassroots campaign. Betcha Tony DeLuca and Dave McBride would agree with that statement. Kam and her team are running a great grassroots campaign. Just sayin’.
Kinda thought that Sherry Dorsey Walker would have raised more money. Started the year at $47K, raised over $38K. It doesn’t suck, but I don’t think it’s enough to be competitive. Especially with Kyle Evans Gay up with what I consider a real good TV ad.
Debbie Harrington raised a pretty similar amount in her bid for Lt. Governor. Unfortunately, it pales in comparison to what Kyle Evans Gay has raised. Started with $52K and added $23K. She also has loaned the campaign $20 K.
Monica Shockley-Porter raised about $11K to go along with her initial balance of just over $7K. She’s facing Bill Bush, who will have a shitload of money from the special interests bankrolling him. She has enough to be competitive, but if you’re gonna make a donation anywhere, make it here.
Kamela Smith is in a similar situation. Started the year with just over $3200, and has raised $21K. Very respectable, but an additional contribution could well make the difference against Val Longhurst.
Marcus Henry raised $79K this year, to go along with $86K in loans and his initial balance of about $140 K. In other words, he’s got plenty of money for the stretch run in the race for NCC Executive.
You can pretty much stick a fork in the campaign of Karen Hartley-Nagle. Despite some huge contributions from developers, she raised only about $20,500 this year after starting the year with $13K in the bank. Larry Tarabicos’ law firm contributed $1200, and Tarabicos personally contributed another $1000. BTW, I saw one of the first signs of her campaign today–signs on I-95. Didn’t know it was legal to post such signs on an interstate. She’s the only one. She’s also a loser.
Monique Johns raised almost nothing, yet seems to be the favorite in the race for NCC Council President. Started the year with $944, and raised $6725. Also loaned her campaign $4K. A lot of ‘unknown’ addresses among her contributors, BTW.
Dennis E. Williams: Still a bleeping joke. He’s not heading back to Dover. Not with the grand total of $3600 raised and another $1500 in loans.
Branden Fletcher Dominguez‘ grassroots-based campaign started the year with $11,500 banked and raised another $12K. More than enough for his campaign to succeed in RD 3.
For those of you who didn’t think that BHL could still raise money (looks at self in mirror), she raised a shitload of money, much of it from people I’ve never heard of. The bad news for her? She’s burned through most of it. She started the year with $687K and raised $531K. The bad news? She burned through over $1 mill, leaving her with $218K for the stretch run. I just focused on the max ($1200 each) donors. A lot of them are from tony out-of-state addresses, many in Pa. Plus, a bleepload from Suxco. I’m guessing that the guy from the Democratic Lieutenant Governors’ Association riffled through his contact list.
Matt Meyer started the year with $1.7 mill in the bank and raised another $823K. He has $1.6 mill remaining to spend. While that likely makes him the favorite, it all depends on how he spends the money.
Collin O’Mara’s report just went up and, it makes me angry. He started out the year with a balance of $870K, $750K of which was from loans. He raised another $101K. Here’s the kicker, though–he only spent slightly over $54K. While in theory this leaves him with over $917,000 to spend, I think we’ve learned a different lesson. He doesn’t intend, and likely never intended, to spend the $750 K he lent the campaign. $54 K in a statewide race doesn’t give you much name recognition. He’s toast. God damn.
You wanna see a finance report showing a candidate who is completely beholden to the special interests and not to their constituents? Look no farther than State Rep. Bill Bush‘s report. An additional $23 K added to his starting balance of $47K. Virtually all special interest money. Yes, including $500 from the guy who Bill Bush made head of Del-Tech–‘Dr.’ Mark Brainard. Did I mention that Monica Shockley Porter is running against him?
Doesn’t look like we’ll have to worry about Dennis E. Williams redux.
Melanie Ross Levin has raised $40K, virtually all from small contributors, and is spending it where a candidate SHOULD spend it.
Going out on a limb–don’t think Dennis E. will be in the ballpark.
Yes, that would most definitely be Jim Marvaleis.
Note that “Growing Economic Opportunities” has the same mailing address as the New Jersey Laborer’s PAC.
Probably uses a different name to try and hide how dependent her campaign is on out of State New Jersey and Philly construction union funding.
Note how the “Delaware Carpenters PAC” has an address in Philadelphia. If it is a Delaware organization why is the address in Philly?
If your goal in this election is to supercharge the influence in Delaware of Jim Maravelias and the reactionary right wing Building Trades group, BHL is your candidate!
In fact, that is her campaign at this point.
Figures. How do the rank-and-file feel about this?
Or do they have no idea?
Who knows what that group’s rank and files feels. Clearly the leadership is pissed at Meyer.
But the fact that they have resorted to attacking Matt Meyer for supposedly not understanding the politics of Ethiopia tells me they are very worried.
Note that “Growing Economic Opportunities” means “spending public money on unnecessary construction projects.”
The DE Building Trades’ 3rd party advertiser PAC paid $11,500 to Jim Maravelias’ daughter on June 27 for “Bethany Hall Long for Governor. Digital ads creation and circulation.”
This is disgusting. I think I’m going to vote for O’Marra simply because he’s the only one I’ve seen no evidence of mass scale out of state donations to.
I had been undecided between Meyer and O’marra but I think I’m going to go with him now.
But what the point, he isn’t going to win?
“I had been undecided between Meyer and O’Marra”
If you are in the “Anybody but BHL” camp, vote for the one you think will get the most votes. Otherwise you are just running up the total for third place.
Didn’t LCV put in 500k for Colin? As a percentage of total cash, I think he actually has the most out of state. How many people in Delaware have actually given him any money?
I can’t stand hall-long and won’t vote for her but she at least raised from actual Delaware voters and seems to be spending it. Some on campaign activities and some on rental properties, but that’s another matter.
Can someone explain to me the difference between the Delaware Building Trades PAC and the Delaware Building & Construction Trades PAC?
I believe, but am not certain, that Maravelias controls both of them.
One is a regular PAC, and one is a 3rd party advertiser PAC.
They are both controlled by the same people.
I’ve updated the piece with some stuff on Collin.
Look at Colin’s 2023 -annual report. The opposite of your statement is true. Omara is primarily relying on out of state donors.
The only mailings I have received from BHL or O’Mara have been from 3rd Party advertisers. DSEA has sent out 4 for BHL and last week I received a big 4-page foldout brochure for O’Mara that came from Working Families Party PAC. That is actually the first published anything that I have seen from his campaign and it technically wasn’t even his campaign that put it out.
It’s time for the teachers to take their organization back from non-teacher Jeff Taschner.
There simply HAS to be a teacher or retired teacher willing to take on that task.
Clearly there is an absence of reliable polling data but my educated guess is that Bethany’s negative perception is growing by a lot but that she is functionally tied with Meyer and trending down. Meyer is landing with his attacked but he is in turn dealing with high negatives. Collin is closer than polls suggest and there is an opening if he campaigns and spends wisely. My gut is that this could all break differently than conventional wisdom but my opinion is maybe 25% data driven and 75% speculation. I’m thinking it’s gonna be an interesting 4 weeks😎 Also don’t miss the WDEL debate/forum tonight at 6pm
Your theory that ‘Collin is closer than polls suggest’ is unsupported by any evidence.
No, I don’t buy either poll since neither pollster is ranked highly by 538.
But what Collin is doing now is what he HAD to do two months ago, especially since he had the money then. You simply can’t be introducing yourself to voters at the time that absentee ballots are being mailed.
He could have been a great candidate. As it is, he’s a spoiler. And not for BHL.
With 29 days to go I continue to try and view this primary through the lens of a normal person, and my impression is that nobody has broken through and reached (us) normals yet.
Meaning, if you aren’t clued in to “politics” you probably don’t know that there is a primary on the Dems side for the office of governor. Maybe MOT is an island of calm and the race is a not topic above the canal. I kinda doubt it, but who knows?
Maravelias’ raiding of the various Laborers’ PACs strikes me as obscene.
I marched with the Laborers in Wilmington’s Labor Day Parade back in 2004, the year I actually ran for office (and lost ignominiously). The Laborers are a union predominantly comprised of minorities. Maravelias is a construction trade goon in the tradition of Tony DeLuca, who shredded hundreds of discrimination complaints when Ruth Ann Minner, Tom Sharp, and Mark Brainard put him in charge of labor law enforcement. Maravelias is for the white ethnic trades guys, yet he’s robbing three different treasuries that belong to the laborers.
He’s a bad guy.
I dont know the total number of votes made in a Delaware gubernatorial election but of those who do vote, where do they get any info on the candidates? Lets say there are 500k votes cast. of those how many actually have any idea what the candidates are like? i would say of the 500k, maybe 20-25% are actually informed and the rest vote for the name they recognize, the persons sex/race/religion, previous job, etc.
In the 2020 gubernatorial election about 500,000 voted, but the turnout was very high because it was easier to vote. The D-R split was very close to 300,000-200,000. I would venture to say that most voters feel they don’t need to know anything about any candidate in a general election other than which letter comes after the name.
OK, I’ve gone back and looked at those Congo campaign finance reports.
He’s eliminated a loan he had apparently received from something called Crown Trophy.
To me, though, I would be looking at the fact that he submitted the exact same form from at least 2016 to 2021. Never raised money? Never spent money?
In 2021, he cites a series of contributions (not loans) to his campaign–all of them from him, to the tune of $18,000.
Then, an additional $7170 in 2022, from him. Total of $25K
Another $5K in 2023. No money spent during the entire time, at least according to his filings.
Maybe it’s on the up-and-up. But why would you keep seeding your own campaign when you’re not spending anything?
It makes no sense.
There will not be 500,000 votes cast-in the Primary. As of August 1st, there were 350,359 Registered Democrats (compared to 205,252 Republicans and 224,000+ “others).
Historically, Delaware has very low turnout in Primary elections. In the 2020 Chris Coons vs Jessica Scarane US Senate Primary only 119,879 Democrats voted. That was the highest turnout in recent years. In the 2022 Auditor of Accounts Primary only 50,251 Democrats voted.
With Lisa Blunt Rochester having no Primary opposition and Sarah McBride having only token opposition, the question is whether or not the turnout will be closer to 2020 or 2022. While legislative primaries will increase turnout in those districts, there is little buzz on the ground about the Wilmington mayoral primary ( certainly this is a lesser of two evils contest). no interest in the Lt Governor’s race. That leaves only the Governor’s race as an unknown turnout wise. In Sussex, much of the BHL support has withered. People are torn between Matt Meyer, who they didn’t know or ever see until now, and Collin O’Mara, who those who know of him like, but who many people think is doing too little, too late. This usually means most of the undecided end up deciding not to vote. If the turnout is closer to 50,000, any one of the gubernatorial candidates can win. Voters are getting sick of the almost daily mailings praising or attacking BHL. The one O’Mara piece sent by the Working Families Party is positive and was well received.
Excellent analysis and I think your right.
Turnout will likely be between 50,000 and 100,000.
FWIW in the 2008 Primary between Markell and Carney, just under 74,000 people voted state wide.
Outside of the City of Wilmington, this is going to be a low turnout election day.
Don’t forget about DSEA. According to their reports, their 3rd party advertiser PAC has spent more than $80k on BHL ads and mailers.
Like I said, can’t write it all at once.
I have a semblance of a life.
Lol fair enough.
You can still pride yourself in knowing that you’re writing far more on this than almost any paid “journalist” in Delaware.
I didn’t see a filed 30-day report from DSEA on the DOE site, where are you finding that report? Also does anyone know where to find the DLGA report? I don’t see them registered with DE but did find them in the federal FCC database.
And does anyone know who CKA Associates, LLC is? I have seen some interesting expenditures in some of these filed reports.
DSEA has two PACS- their regular PAC and their 3rd party advertiser PAC.
These expenditures are from the DSEA 3rd party advertiser PAC
They’re there. Wasn’t one report, though, it’s a series of individual reports.
I suspect they will file a 30-day in addition to the others.
Found them I was looking for them under the 30 day and didn’t realize there were monthly reports from the 3rd party advertisers
Thanks
Saw an ad for O’Mara earlier today on Morning Joe. Didn’t catch who paid for it – a campaign or a PAC. If he ca ln push a lot of positive ads out during the next month and kind of stay above the BHL-MM fray, things could get interesting.
Turnout, like my mood, will be dismal.
I don’t hate myself enough to watch Morning Joe but I know that advertising during that show can’t be cheap.
O’Mara’s — er, the PAC supporting him — cute ad with talking animals keeps coming up on my Google Ads (i.e. YouTube). It’s not very good but it has talking animals.
That Dr. Doolittle ad should have been up two months ago, especially if he had no intention of actually going around the state to introduce himself.
We’re long past the ‘introduce yourself to the voters’ phase of the campaign.
Just posted a bunch of updates. Thought you’d like to know.
Change Can’t Wait PAC – received anti-BHL mail
Just getting a chance to look over the 14 RD candidates reports. Marty has over $48,000 as loans to his campaign. Not much of a grassroots effort.
Rendon Report:
Total campaign funds raised 58,641
raised this period 28,157
Grand total all loans 25,450
didn’t count contributors but good size list and he started earliest
Clair:
total raised m 52,977
total loans 5,000
Also a good mix of contributors
KMG:
Total raised 68,830
Loans 4,606
Most total raised and by far most pac money
Dollars are pretty even. It will come down to who spends wisest and campaigns the most effectively. (El Som double check my numbers?)
Seems about right.
But the RD overwhelmingly rejected KMG when she tried to be reelected State Auditor against Lydia York. Word on the street is that they’re rejecting her this time. If pressed, I think Claire wins.
She and Pete can drown their disappointment with the new state drink , the Orange Crush at the Starboard😎
Did you hear Mcguinnes and Schwartzkopf’s interview on a sussex radio station? I hope his Claire bashing bites them both in the butt.
Yes. I mentioned it somewhere…tells me that Claire is kicking her butt. I didn’t need to be told that Schwartzkopf was an asshole.
Dig a little deeper into Rendon’s report. Line 7 has outstanding loans at $48,128. Over $22,000 in loans in 2023 and $25,000 for the 30-day primary report.
Looks like you’re correct, puts him t 37,000 raised in ’23- ’24 a respectable number. 14 is more expensive that most RD’s this cycle.
Lots of Republican donors to the Change Can’t Wait PAC. Developers too I think. But more importantly, thanks El Som for your yeoman’s effort here.
Change Can’t Wait is definitely a pro-Meyer PAC based on its activities. Besides the anti-BHL mailers telling voters to call her, they have also sent out at least one mailer that I’ve received asking people to call Meyer and tell him to do something good – very similar to the DSEA language in its pro-BHL mailers that folks were complaining about on here. And there was a Spotlight Delaware article quoting one of the PAC’s officials admitting the PAC contacted the Meyer campaign for “fact checking” purposes.
Eleuthere DuPont (will someone tell me his American name?)
Just delete the “Eleu” of his name. Essentially it’s “ther” with a hard TH (as in thermal).
So it’s ThurThur, not there there?
If so we will discuss it no fur-Thur.
“Thermal” has a soft th. In French, “th” gives you a hard “t.” “Thierry,” for example, is pronounced Tee-erry.
Eleuthera as a girl’s name is of Greek origin meaning “freedom”. Also, according to wikipedia, in Greek mythology, the name Eleuther may refer to one of the Curetes, was said to have been the eponym of the towns Eleutherae and Eleuthernae in Crete.
Kids, you don’t get this on ANY OTHER DELAWARE POLITICAL BLOG.
Nor should you…
What’s going on with the Governor’s candidate filings? Why is it taking so long?
Is Albence holding them all back until he can personally correct the lies in BHL’s report?
BHL filed. $535~ raised. Omarra only raised about $100k. Pathetic. Bring on Governor Meyer
$585 or $585K?
$585K. Her problem, though, is that she’s already burned through over $1 mill, and has a little over $200K left.
For those in the know can you tell me if it’s ok to get loans from friends as long as they are listed as loans with their names. It seems to me that if this is true then what’s the point of having a $600 cap.
Just to clarify my question a complaint was filed with the Department of Elections questioning loans from friends and apparently the response that was provided by the candidate was that these were just considered outside personal loans was acceptable to the Department of Elections. Again what the point of the $600 cap then.