Because of the Ethics Complaint saying that commercial real estate owners met with the mayor and they were campaign contributors, I started digging into Soglin’s campaign contributions on the off season and I found some curious things.
SOGLIN’S 2016 CAMPAIGN REPORTSM/h4>
January Continuing – July 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015
$50 Joanna Berke (Verona) 10/3/15
July Continuing (January 1, 2016 – June 30, 2016)
$2,300 John S. McKenzie “Real Estate” 6/17/16
$2,500 Terrence Wall “Real Estate” 6/21/16
$1,000 Perry Armstrong (Verona) CEO 6/17/16 (Preferred Title)
$1,000 Wayne Harris “Marketing Executive” 6/24/16 (6am Marketing)
$1,000 Duane Hendrickson “Realtor” 6/14/16
$1,000 Gary Gorman (Oregon) “Real Estate” 6/21/16
$1,000 James Imhoff “Chairman/CEO” 6/29/16 (First Weber)
$1,000 Leonard Mattioli “businessman” 6/14/16 (Epic)
$2,000 Dennis Markos “Consultant” 6/17/16
$2,000 George Gialamas “retired” 6/15/16 (Gialamas Real Estate Company)
$4,664 Debra Houden “Executive Director” 6/25/16 (see other Houden developer family contributions below)
Soglin paid himself back $1,200 of his loan to the campaign
SOGLIN’S 2017 CAMPAIGN REPORTS
In 2017 when there was no campaign going on the mayor reported this
January Continuing (Contributions July 1, 2016 – December 31, 2016)
$1,000 Bruce Bosben (Sun Prairie) “Real Estate” 11/4/2016 (Apex)
$1,500 Robert Keller “Real Estate” 9/22/2016
$2,000 Bradley Hutter (Middleton) – “Executive” MIG Real Estate 7/1/2016
$250 Loren Mortenson “Chairman of the Board” 8/13/16
$1,000 Norman Flynn (Monona) “Realtor” 7/6/16
$500 Ken Golden “Retired” 7/1/16
Soglin used this $6,000 to repay himself from his loan to the campaign.
July Continuing (Contributions January 1, 2017 – July 30, 2017)
$500 Wayne Bieglow “Consultant – 5/15/17
$4,500 Scott Herrick “Attorney” 5/13/17 (Attorney for the Police and Fire Commission) – LOAN, paid back below
$4,665 Nina Barnett (New York – “Retired” 6/13/17
$700 Betty Custer “Finance Planner” 5/12/17
$3,000 John Wiley “Retired” 5/2/17
$1,000 Andrew Davis (Lost Angeles) “Film Maker” 5/9/17
$200 David Newby 5/8/17
$1,000 Jim Anixter (Highland Park, IL) “President” 6/7/17
$3,000 Leonard Mattioli “Businessman” 5/2/17 (Epic)
$1,000 David Walsh “retired” 6/2/17
$1,500 Joel Rogers “Professor” (Center on Wisconsin Strategy) 5/4/17
$1,000 James Imhoff “Real Estate Executive” 5/25/17
$500 John Matthews (Fitchburg) “retired” 5/15/17
$500 Lon Sprecher (Middleton) “Executive” 5/5/17
$1,000 Wayne Harris “Marketing Executive” 5/6/17
$1,000 Leonard Simon (Bethesda MD) “Executive” 5/4/17 (city’s lobbyist in Washington)
$100 Barry Orton 5/15/17
$1,000 Masood Akhtar (Middleton) “Executive” 5/2/17
$500 Mary Elliot “Retired” 5/15/17
$500 Martha Vukelich-Austin “Executive” 5/16/17
SOGLIN’S 2018 CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTS
January Continuing (July 1, 2017 – December 31, 2017)
$500 Ken Golden
July Continuing (January 1, 2018 – June 30, 2018)
$2,832 Jeffrey Houden “Marketing” 4/17/18 (Developer!)
$3,000 Fred Mohs “Attorney” 4/17/18
$4,632 Chris Houden “SALES” 4/17/18 (Developer!)
This money was used to pay back $4,500 loan from Scott Herrick 5/13/17. Why did the mayor need a loan at that time?
And of course, I reported on the 2019 reports here and here.
CONCLUSION
I’m cynical. And this is worse than I thought. That’s a lot of donations from people who have very clear interests in the City of Madison and make money off of developing. I knew it was bad, but I guess when you see it in black and white and its sooooo obvious, its jolting.
Going back to Enis’ email about who was in the room on that day, lobbying the mayor
Anne Monks (Mayor’s office)
Nick Zavos (Mayor’s office)
Rob Phillips (Engineering)
Mark Hanson (Assessor)
Michael Mucha (Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District)
Terrence Wall – T Wall Enterprises
– $2,500 Terrence Wall “Real Estate” 6/21/16
– $2,000 – Terrence Wall (PO Box in Madison?) – CEO and founder (Developer) – Jan 2019 report
– $1,073 – Helen Wall (PO Box in Madison?) – Administrative Assistant – Jan 2019 report
Todd Wozniak – Veridian Homes
Curt Brink – Curt Vaughn Brink LLC (developer)
Matt Brink – Executive Director, Smart Growth Madison
Brian Mullins – Mullins Family
But now I’m going back to, where are the lobbying reports on these folks? (Damn, another blog post!)
I do not see
Terrence Wall
Todd Wozniak
Curt Brink
Matt Brink or
Brian Mullins
on the list of lobbyist that would have been registered at that time.
In fact, I don’t see anyone from Smart Growth Madison. Sigh . . . you know, this whole blog got started back in 2004 when I wanted a way to show people what lobbyists were up to – and how they weren’t complying with the laws and reporting it! I didn’t realize the reporting had slipped ssoooooo much again.
