The 30-Day Reports

We’ll keep adding to this post as I get to more reports.  Remember, for those candidates who did not face primaries, this is the first report they must file this year.  An 8-day report is also required, as is a year-end report.

Let’s see what has surfaced so far…

Any doubts that Bill ‘Lumpy’ Carson is a wholly-owned obedient servant for the special interests can be disabused of that notion by reading his report.  Raised $34K, even though he had no primary or general election opponent.  Remember that Trey Paradee-promoted bundling party at the Batson/Kidner lobbying shop?  Took place on May 23.  Not coincidentally, Ol’ Lump got campaign checks from the following the very same day: ACLI (life insurance), AgentPAC, Altria, American Council Of Life Insurers (a duplicate donation, or an honest filing error?) , Barry Guerke, CDI Consulting Services, Continental Casualty Company, Delaware Bankers Association, Delaware Chiropractic Society, Dr. George Schreppler (chiropractor), DSEA Advocacy Fund, GEICO, Harvey Hanna & Associates, Health Executives’ Action League, Laird Stabler & Associates, Mary Kaye McLaughlin, Michael J. Miller (insurance litigator), Montrell Teague (harness driver),  NAMIC Admin. Fund, Nationwide Mutual Ins. Company PAC, Optometry Eye PAC, Parkowski, Guerke & Swayze, PPL Consulting LLC, Rebecca Batson Kidner, Richard Bayard, Smith Capitol Advisors LLC,  Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits LLC, Standard Distributing Company, The Pilots’ Association For the Delaware River & Bay, The Travelers’ Company Inc.,  United Distributors of Delaware, USAA, William Clifton of the Delaware Farm Bureau.

This is about as anti-democratic as it gets.  Ol’ Lump is owned by the insurance companies.  You may have noticed that the priorities of said companies are often in direct conflict with, you know, normal people.  Like Lumpy’s constituents.

Memo To Future House Leadership:  Keep this casually-corrupt bozo away from any committees that consider bills affecting the corporations that own him.

Tim Sheldon donated $600 each to Val Longhurst and George Dudlek.  0 for 2.  This reminds me–did anybody piss away more money with so little effect than the Delaware Building and Trades unions?  They gonna keep throwing away good money after bad? Gonna stick with the same failed leadership?

Here’s a weird one–PAC Local Union 451 started the period with a balance of, wait for it, 1 penny.  Raised no money, but sent a $600 check to Rep. Mimi Minor-Brown, who has no opposition.

Progressive Democrats Of Delaware have maxed out to Claire Snyder-Hall, Frank Burns, and Eric Morrison for the general election.

The 20th RD Democratic Committee contributed $3000 to the campaign of Stell Parker Shelby.  That appears to greatly exceed the legal $600 limit.  Am I wrong?

I’m caught up–for now.  More to come…