Who's Paying for the Franks Campaign, Part One

Since the filing of the last campaign finance report before the election was last week, we here at the Tank are going to take a look at exactly what "moneychangers" are changing their money at the Franks Temple. I'm sure it'll be a revelation about the 'fine Christian poor working man' to many of you. Since it was filed last week, the July 31 campaign finance report will be the first one we hit up. There are two reports: One original, and another added on August 1.

RECEIPTS:
$46,350 itemized, $9550 non-itemized-total receipts $55,900
DISBURSEMENTS:
$53,624.53 itemized, $814.21 non-itemized-total spent $54,442.75

YTD Receipts: $268,544.13
YTD Spent: $162,300.67
Cash on Hand: $602,655.26

Individual Contributors:
Baxter Healthcare (location: Illinois) $250
GlaxoSmithKline (location: Pennsylvania) $500
Ralph Champan, PA $500
Timothy Balducci, Attorney $5000
Aquaklear, Inc $500
Hawkins, Stracener, & Givson, PLLC $1000
Percy Watson, Miss. House of Reps $1000
Miss. Health Care Ass'n $2500
David & Betty Cole, ICC President, $500
Kenneth Geno, Architect $500
Hon. Steve Holland, Miss. House of Reps $250
Casey Franks, Three Rivers Development $250
Cheryl Pine & Kimberly Turner, Realtors, $250
Eric Hampton, Hampton Transports, $250
Felix Rutledge, Rutledge Construction, $250
Ima Beam, Teacher, $250 (wait, she teaches at MSBD and lives in Mantachie? That's a heck of a commute)
James & Lorela Moore, Lee County Attorney, $250
JCAM Properties, LLC $250
Mike & Candy Horton, NEMS Natural Gas Dist. Manager, $250
Thomas & Diane Lynch, Daybrite Plant Manager $250
Tupelo PCH, LLC $250
Bert & Gail Bowden, Machinist, Percision Machine $300
Johnny Wilder, Wilder Welding $300
Claude Sexton, Machinist, Percision Machine, $500
Bill Morgan, Morgan Van Lines, $500
Steve Morgan, Morgan Van Lines, $500
Vaz Vanelli, Vanelli's Restaurant, $500
Claude & Sara Hartley, Tupelo Furniture Market $1000
Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Davis, Astrolounger, $1000
Gov. Ray Mabus, CEO, Foamex, $300
Ruff Business Systems, $250
Dixon Properties, Inc. $250
Claiborne & Marian Barksdale, Barksdale Reading Insitute, Ole Miss $250
Bill & Joyce Leech, Realtors $250
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, $10000
MAE Fund for Children and Public Education $10000 (I guess that's 10K out of the pockets of teachers, and 10k that could be spent on children)
William Miles, Miss. House of Reps $250
Crymes Pittman, Attorney $5000

Disbursements:
4th Cong. Dist. Democrats $1000
James Hull (residents of the Tupelo area will recognize him as a reporter for WTVA/WLOV) $4983.67
US Postal Service $533
Pro Printers Inc $1331.44
Cunningham, Harris, Osbourne & Associates $7000
NEC $318
Anzalone Liszt $24500
Jason Harper $875
Bryan Sexton $875
Pam Johnson $1100
The Baughman Company $4378
Stanford Campaigns $2235.42
Belhaven Springs $699
POGOZEN Technology $4500

Quick Take: Plenty of Lawyers, plenty of special interests here. Very few contributions from outside the district. Interesting that while representatives are putting money in the campaign, there aren't any senators doing the same.

Also interesting that James Hull works for the campaign; I guess that blows the whole impartiality thing out of the water. Anyone know whether or not Hull reported on Mr. Franks at WTVA/WLOV? The end total nearly matches the one he had at the beginning of July, meaning that he's just covering his losses in donations right now.