[Vision2020] AARP and campaign finance

[Shirley Ringo]

Visionaries:

It is disappointing that AARP devoted time and effort into collecting information about campaign contributions for elected officials, and refused to release specific details.  Some representatives of AARP have argued that it was not appropriate to supply information concerning the source of donations for given elected officials because AARP is non-partisan.  I could understand that explanation, if a particular party were targeted.  But the information gathered concerned campaign financing for elected officials in general, not those from a specific party.

The discussion raised my curiosity about my own campaign contributions for the 2010 election.  My fund-raising efforts were sluggish for a number of reasons, but the proportion of sources is of interest.

I raised a total of $9188.81 from 125 individual contributors.  94 of those contributions were $50 or less and provided $3505.

My campaign collected $5700 from fifteen political action groups.  The largest donations were $1000 each from the Political Action Committee for Education, and $1000 from CWA-COPE, which is supported by AFL-CIO.

Representative Shirley Ringo
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