Senate 7 10-Day Report Detail

Here are details from the 10-Day Campaign Finance Reports, available from the Alabama Secretary of State’s Office:

Anthony Daniels (D) – Beginning Balance $78 + Contributions $5,183 + In-Kind $0 + Receipts from Other Sources $0 – Expenditures $3,495 = Ending Balance $1,766

Contributors listed on 1 page, no PAC money. Expenditures include Tennessee Valley Signs and Speaking Out News.

Sam Givhan (R) – Beginning Balance $20,348 + Contributions $62,999 + In-Kind $450 + Receipts from Other Sources $20,000 – Expenditures $91,067 = Ending Balance $12,279

Notable contributors and all PACs include (13 pages): Deserve Victory PAC $3,000;  STA PAC $10,000; TOC PAC $10,000; Children’s PAC $5,000; TAG PAC $2,000; and Farm PAC $6,500.

STA PAC, TOC PAC, and Children’s PAC share an address in Birmingham.  Deserve Victory PAC and TAG PAC share a P.O. Box in Montgomery.

The Receipts from Other Sources is a self-loan to his campaign. Expenditures are mostly to Southern Insights for consulting / advertising, plus Colonial Graphics, Off the Wall Printing, and The Huntsville Times.

Laura Hall (D) – Beginning Balance $0 + Contributions $46,043 + In-Kind $0 + Receipts from Other Sources $0 – Expenditures $29,678 = Ending Balance $16,364

Notable contributors and all PACs include (6 pages): FGAPAC $2,500; Yvonne Kennedy Campaign Fund $2,000; James Buskey Campaign Fund $2,000; Alvin Holmes (State Representative); JPAC $2,500; SEA PAC $2,500; John Knight Campaign Fund $2,500; STA PAC $2,000; Tim Morgan (Madison County District Attorney);  Committee to Elect Jack Page $100, Huntsville Professional Firefighters Association $1,000; BI PAC $2,500; ED PAC $2,500; A-VOTE $10,000; TRAIL $2,500; Lynn Sherrod (Judge); SIX PAC $1,000.

Expenditures are mostly to Driscol and Rucker Group; Tyson Group of  TX for phone bank; Tennessee Valley Signs of Scottsboro; Blueprint of Montgomery; plus $400 for “placing signs”.

Mary Scott Hunter (R) – Beginning Balance $20,750 + Contributions $15,142 + In-Kind $0 + Receipts from Other Sources $0 – Expenditures $22,912 = Ending Balance $12,979

Notable contributors include (5 pages): Al Wiggins (recent AL House candidate); Sonny Callahan (former Congressman); no PAC money.

Expenditures are mostly to Strategy Inc. and Ripley Signs.

Allan Rhodes (R) – Beginning Balance $0 + Contributions $6,619 + In-Kind $8,000 + Receipts from Other Sources $0 – Expenditures $6,349 = Ending Balance $270

Contributors listed on 2 pages, no PAC money. Expenditures include COMCAST Spotlight, WBHP radio, and Signs from TX.

Roger Richardson (R) – Beginning Balance $336 + Contributions $7,217 + In-Kind $4,818 + Receipts from Other Sources $0 – Expenditures $6,038 = Ending Balance $1,515

Contributors listed on 2 pages, no PAC money. Expenditures include Comcast, Cumulus, and Lite 96.9.

Paul Sanford (R) – Beginning Balance $4,894 + Contributions $9,096 + In-Kind $0 + Receipts from Other Sources $0 – Expenditures $7,356 = Ending Balance $6,635

Contributors listed on 5 pages including our friend and regular reader Jonathan, no PAC money. Expenditures include Heritage Advertising and Public Strategy Associates.

Peter Wright (R) – no report.

More about PACs – STA PAC, which contributed $10,000 to Sam Givhan and $2,000 to Laura Hall,  appears to be significantly funded by Drummon or Drummons (depending on the report – really Drummond Coal).  For some odd reason their Expenditure reports are incomplete, but they appear to contribute mostly to the Alabama Democratic Party and Democrat candidates.

STA PAC, TOC PAC, and Children’s PAC are run by Rudy Davidson.

Laura Hall got money from TRAIL, which is probably TRIAL, the Alabama Trial Lawyer’s PAC.  Funny how these groups and contributors make a lot of typos; it’s almost like they don’t really want people to know about them.

The Birmingham News has a great list of PACs.

More:

As I understand it, Rudy Davidson’s PACs are funnels for trial lawyers, gambling, and AEA.  Deserve Victory PAC and TAG PAC are run by Claire Austin and funnel money from trial lawyers and gambling.

FARM PAC is ALFA.

More:

Claire Austin is one of the good guys, so to speak.  She worked for Senator Sessions and was Attorney General Bill Pryor’s Campaign Manager. She also worked for Mitt Romney’s Presidential Campaign.  She does represent gambling interests (lottery).

And still more:

Southern Insights (”a full service Republican Political Consulting and Public Affairs firm”) is Givhan’s political consultant.  One would hope that they steered him away from bad ol’ AEA money, but the STA PAC, TOC PAC, and Children’s PAC contributions of $25,000 are somewhat troubling. Maybe Chris Brown or Paul Glass can explain it to us.

UPDATE:

Dale Jackson at WVNN invited Brian to comment on the election this morning – Thanks Dale.

Will Anderson at WBHP mentioned this post this morning – Thanks Will.