[Vision2020] AARP and campaign finance

[Tom Hansen]

In the spirit of transparency, a concept lost on this red state of ours,
(to browse all financial disclosure reports of Gresham Bouma, Dan Schmidt,
Gary Schroeder, Judy Brown, Tom Trail, David Klingenberg, Shirley Ringo,
and Isaac Young) scroll down to "Legislative District 6" at:

http://sos.idaho.gov/elect/Finance/2010/2010_leg_1_to_13.htm

Just for kicks, scroll down to "SUPT. OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION" and check out
Tom Luna's donors, at:

http://sos.idaho.gov/elect/Finance/2010/2010_stwd.htm

Seeya tomorrow, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Ellensburg, Washington


On Tue, May 24, 2011 11:40 am, Shirley Ringo wrote:
> 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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