One person contributed $4,000 to a city election? What are we, Boise or Seattle? or is that what they want us to be? What does one person have to gain by providing so much money in a little race? like ours? Nothing against the candidates though, good for them to have a big spending benefactor. <BR><BR><B><I>Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">>From Dale Courtney's blog at:<BR><BR>http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2007/10/31/55739.aspx<BR><BR>------------------------------------------<BR><BR>"Hey, Big Spender <BR><BR>I have a copy of all of the City Council Candidates' Campaign Financial<BR>Disclosure Reports. <BR><BR>I'll post them shortly. <BR><BR>Of interest is how much money the candidates have received. <BR><BR>Aaron Ament: $9,475 <BR>Tom Lamar: $8,817 <BR>Walter Steed: $6,936 <BR>Wayne Krauss: $6,135
<BR>Dan Carscallen: $4,545 <BR>Linda Pall: $3,910 <BR>Evan Holmes: $1,992<BR>Bill London accuses the GMA candidates of being the "big spending" group. <BR><BR>Seems like most of the money is being funneled to the liberal candidates. <BR><BR>If money is any indication, the libs have their bets set on Ament. <BR><BR>Heaven help us."<BR><BR>------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Although it is important to learn how much money has been contributed to<BR>each candidate, it is vitally more important to learn from where that money<BR>was contributed.<BR><BR>Your attention is invited to the Financial Disclosure reports located at:<BR><BR>http://www.MoscowElection2007.com<BR><BR>A review of the Financial Disclosure Reports submitted by Dan Carscallen,<BR>Walter Steed, Wayne Krauss, and the Greater Moscow Alliance Political Action<BR>Committee reflects contributions in the amount of $1,000 to each of the<BR>aforementioned by Palouse Rental and Construction.<BR><BR>Who is
Palouse Rental and Construction you ask?<BR><BR>As mentioned earlier by Mark Solomon in an earlier posting at:<BR><BR>http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2007-October/049113.html<BR><BR>"As I'm always interested in who is contributing big $$ in elections, I<BR>looked it up and saw Palouse Rentals and Construction had donated $1000 to<BR>GMA. Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but I did not know that name. A quick<BR>search on the Sec'y of State website gives up John Ficca as the president of<BR>the corporation, which, by the way, has been administratively dissolved by<BR>the Sec'y of State for failure to file annual reports since 2004."<BR><BR>It appears that this defunct company is/was headed by John Ficca, who back<BR>in 2000 . . .<BR><BR>http://www.lni.wa.gov/news/2000/pr000214a.asp<BR><BR>"TUMWATER - An Idaho employer must pay more than $95,000 in unpaid wages to<BR>12 current and former employees in the Spokane area according to a<BR>settlement agreement
announced today by the Department of Labor and<BR>Industries.<BR><BR>John Ficca, of Moscow, Idaho, owner of Art's Electric, Inc., also has been<BR>permanently prohibited from bidding on or performing work on future public<BR>works projects in Washington. Ficca also does business as Palouse Country<BR>Electric and U Cities Contracting."<BR><BR>It appears that perhaps the state of Idaho may be interested in the business<BR>posture of "Palouse Rental and Construction" as it makes political<BR>contributions to a select few (Steed, Krauss, and Carscallen) of Moscow's<BR>city council candidates.<BR><BR>One can only wonder how Moscow will be divvied up . . . er . . . uh . . . I<BR>mean rezoned come January if Palouse Rental and Construction should gain<BR>three seats on our city council.<BR><BR>Things that make you go . . .<BR><BR>Hmmm. <BR><BR>Seeya round town, Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR><BR>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The
college<BR>students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."<BR><BR>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)<BR><BR><BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net <BR>mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>=======================================================<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR>Tom & Liz Ivie<p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com