Campaign Finance Reports – Take 2

April 1, 2007 3:21 am

Here’s the next 5 reports.

This time I looked at Brink, Clear, Palm, Sanborn and Clear.

1. There is a conduit missing. There are several firefighters that are listed on the reports as contributing through a conduit, but there is no conduit report listed on the City website.

In addition to the previous report that Clausius had conduit contributions from mystery conduit from the following three people:

Che Stedman (Oregon) $100
Todd Shortreed (Waunakee) $100
Michael Stich (DeForest) $100

I can also now add:
Jed Sanborn’s report has conduit contributions from the mystery conduit from the following three people.

Clay Christiansen $22
Michael Popovich (Middleton) $117
James Sharpe $161

2. The conduits and candidates didn’t quite get their reporting right, unless I missed something. There are some people who reported conduit money but there are no reports. In other instances, conduits reported contributions that don’t show up on the reports.

In addition to my previous report of

Mark Deadman
Reports a contribution from

Larry Gleasman $50 and
Phile Salkin (Verona) $50

as being from a conduit, but it doesn’t show up on the conduit reports (likely the Realtors).
Note: I believe these contributions should have shown up on the pre-primary report. WRA letter dated 1/31/07, report says 2/13/07.

Michael Schumacher
Reports a contribution from

Larry Gleasman $50
Note: I believe this contribution should have shown up on the pre-primary report. WRA letter dated 1/31/07, report says 2/06/07.
John Deininger $40
Jennifer Mirscke (Sun Prairie) $25
Peter Sveum (Stoughton) $50
Kathy Zastrow $60
Lisabeth Weirich $60

as being from a conduit, but it doesn’t show up on the conduit reports (likely the Realtors). And my apoligies if I spelled things wrong the handwriting was hard to read.

Great Madison Chamber of Commerce – Direct Givers
Report a Contribution to Mark Deadman from
Phil Blake $100 and
Mari Wolter $100
but the contributions don’t show up on Mark Deadman’s reports.

Report a contribution to Michael Schumacher from
Phil Blake $100
but the contribution doesn’t show up on Michael Schumacher’s report.

I can now also add the following:
Jed Sanborn report the following contributions from conduits that don’t show up in the reports:

David Simon $250
Susan Springman (Waunakee) $25

both are in the real estate industry and I suspect that they should have shown up on the realtors reports.

Troy Theil‘s report marked the following contributions from conduits that don’t show up in the conduit reports.

Elizabeth Curley $50
Allen Arntsen $50
Michael Christopher $50
Thomas Beach $100
Anne Gorman Axe $30
Dick Wagner $50
Scott Neitzel (Verona) $60
Tom Stolper $100
Susan Springman (Waunakee) $25

He also reported contributions from the following people that show up in the conduit reports but were not marked as such on Troy Theil‘s report:

Jim Imhoff $100

And finally, the Chamber of Commerce reports contributions to Theil that don’t show up on his report. The contributions are as follows:

Jim Hegenbarth $125

3. Some campaigns got high dollar amounts or large percentages of their money from organized special interests. (I know, no big surprise really, but the numbers are higher than even I expected).

Here’s a brief (hopefully accurate) analysis of a few campaigns – but it doesn’t include any of the late money.

Brink

Total – $4285.31
Average Contribution – $194.79
Average Contribution without $1040 of the candidates own money – $147.51
$1,355 from the real estate and development community which makes 32% of the dollars and 50% of the contributors
48% of the dollars came from contributions that were more than $100
29% of the dollars came from outside the city
41% of the contributions came from outside the city
2% of the money came from the Chamber of Commerce conduit
0% of the money came from the Realtors conduit
2% of the money came from conduits

Clear

Total – $11,696.26
Average Contribution – $87.76
Average Contribution without $2550 of the candidates own money – $66.76
Only one noticeable contribution from the real estate and development community
56% of the dollars came from contributions that were more than $100
16% of the dollars came from outside the city
13% of the contributions came from outside the city
0% of the money came from the Chamber of Commerce conduit
0% of the money came from the Realtors conduit
0% of the money came from conduits

Palm

Total – $6288.19
Average Contribution – $82.74
Average Contribution without $1242.43 of the candidates own money – $67.28
No noticeable money from the real estate and development community
64% of the dollars came from contributions that were more than $100
10% of the dollars came from outside the city
5% of the contributions came from outside the city
0% of the money came from the Chamber of Commerce conduit
0% of the money came from the Realtors conduit
0% of the money came from conduits

Sanborn

Total – $5593.85
Average Contribution – $103.59
$2,956 from the real estate and development community which makes 53% of the dollars and 43% of the contributors
80% of the dollars came from contributions that were more than $100
42% of the dollars came from outside the city
39% of the contributions came from outside the city
10% of the money came from unknown conduits
11% of the money came from the Chamber of Commerce conduit
12% of the money came from the Realtors conduit
33% of the money came from conduits

Theil

Total – $10,208
Average Contribution – $65.02
Average Contribution without $1000 of the candidates own money – $59.03
$2,811 from the real estate and development community which makes 28% of the dollars and 21% of the contributors
52% of the dollars came from contributions that were more than $100
22% of the dollars came from outside the city
19% of the contributions came from outside the city
4% of the money came from unknown conduits
17% of the money came from the Chamber of Commerce conduit
15% of the money came from the Realtors conduit
35% of the money came from conduits