<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Shirley,</font><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Thanks for the disclosure! It is nice to see who is funded by whom. It is unfortunate that AARP will not release their findings. I am sure there is some political reason behind it.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Have you heard about the political action group that is trying to change the law so that at least 50% of an elected officials funding must come from individuals living in their district? What do you think about that?</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">I know Moscow is constantly being
handed candidates that are heavily funded by outside interest groups, including a few of your opponents.</font></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Thanks for your information,</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Donovan Arnold</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br>--- On <b>Tue, 5/24/11, Shirley Ringo <i><ringoshirl@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Shirley Ringo <ringoshirl@moscow.com><br>Subject: [Vision2020] AARP and campaign finance<br>To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><br>Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 11:40 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1354298438">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Visionaries:</font></div>
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<p class="yiv1354298438MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri">It is
disappointing that AARP devoted time and effort into collecting information
about campaign contributions for elected officials, and refused to release
specific details.<span style=""> </span>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.<span style=""> </span>I
could understand that explanation, if a particular party were targeted.<span style=""> </span>But the information gathered concerned
campaign financing for elected officials in general, not those from a specific
party.</font></p>
<p class="yiv1354298438MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri">The
discussion raised my curiosity about my own campaign contributions for the 2010
election.<span style=""> </span>My fund-raising efforts
were sluggish for a number of reasons, but the proportion of sources is of
interest.</font></p>
<p class="yiv1354298438MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri">I raised a
total of $9188.81 from 125 individual contributors.<span style=""> </span>94 of those contributions were $50 or
less and provided $3505.</font></p>
<p class="yiv1354298438MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri">My campaign
collected $5700 from fifteen political action groups.<span style=""> </span>The largest donations were $1000 each
from the Political Action Committee for Education, and $1000 from CWA-COPE,
which is supported by AFL-CIO.</font></p>
<p class="yiv1354298438MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri">Representative Shirley Ringo</font></p></div>
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