Board receives post-election finance reports
By TIERRA PALMER
The Eagle-Gazette Staff
tlpalmer@nncogannett.com
LANCASTER - Nine candidates on the March 4 primary ballot filed post-election campaign finance reports with the Fairfield County Board of Elections.
State law requires all candidates and issue committees to file a post-primary campaign finance report regardless of the amount of money spent or received during their campaign.
Those reports, which reflect activity through April 4, were due by 4 p.m. Friday.
As of the deadline, the board of elections staff had post-primary campaign finance reports from incumbents Fairfield County Clerk of Courts Deborah Smalley, county commissioners Jon Myers and Judy Shupe, Engineer Frank Anderson and Sheriff Dave Phalen, and challengers Darrell Ball, Dave Hackmann, Karl Stalter and Gary Weltlich.
Those documents again showed that Phalen had the most money on hand - $58,157.41 - in the run-up to the primary election. His campaign expenditures totaled $20,393.61, leaving him with a balance of $37,763.80.
Anderson, who is running unopposed in the General Election, carried forward the most money of any candidate - $50,029. Of that, $49,709.58 was carryover from his most recent run for county engineer.
Weltlich, a Violet Township trustee, outspent everyone else in his bid for the Republican nomination for one of two seats on the Fairfield County Board of Commissioners, with expenditures totaling $37,673.70.
By comparison, his opponent Shupe, who is in her fourth term as county commissioner, spent $13,824.57. She will face off against Stalter in the November General Election.
Shupe's colleague Myers, now in his third term as county commissioner, ran unopposed in the March primary.
''I was fortunate not to have any opposition,'' said Myers, who carried over $1,757.74 from his 2004 campaign.
His expenditures totaled $410.20, including a $100 donation to Citizens to Protect Children and Elderly from Abuse and Neglect.
''I am looking forward to launching an aggressive campaign (against Democratic opponent George Hallarn) this fall and finishing the work I started,'' Myers said.
The board of elections received financial disclosure reports from Citizens for Liberty Union-Thurston Schools and Citizens to Protect Children and Elderly from Abuse and Neglect.
That group raised a total of about $25,000 in support Issue 12, a 10-year, 1-mill operating levy that will generate $2.4 million annually for adult and protective services, according to Mike Orlando, executive director of Fairfield County Job & Family Services.
That measure passed by a vote of 52 percent to 47 percent, according to results from the board of elections.
''We were really blessed to have widespread financial support from local businesses and the community, but the success of the campaign was really (because of) the grassroots efforts by more than 350 community volunteers, who were out communicating our message,'' Orlando said.
Failure to file a campaign finance report is grounds for referral to the Ohio Election Commission, which can impose a fine up to $100 per day, according to the Ohio Secretary of State's Web site, www.sos.state.oh.us.
By TIERRA PALMER
The Eagle-Gazette Staff
tlpalmer@nncogannett.com
LANCASTER - Nine candidates on the March 4 primary ballot filed post-election campaign finance reports with the Fairfield County Board of Elections.
State law requires all candidates and issue committees to file a post-primary campaign finance report regardless of the amount of money spent or received during their campaign.
Those reports, which reflect activity through April 4, were due by 4 p.m. Friday.
As of the deadline, the board of elections staff had post-primary campaign finance reports from incumbents Fairfield County Clerk of Courts Deborah Smalley, county commissioners Jon Myers and Judy Shupe, Engineer Frank Anderson and Sheriff Dave Phalen, and challengers Darrell Ball, Dave Hackmann, Karl Stalter and Gary Weltlich.
Those documents again showed that Phalen had the most money on hand - $58,157.41 - in the run-up to the primary election. His campaign expenditures totaled $20,393.61, leaving him with a balance of $37,763.80.
Anderson, who is running unopposed in the General Election, carried forward the most money of any candidate - $50,029. Of that, $49,709.58 was carryover from his most recent run for county engineer.
Weltlich, a Violet Township trustee, outspent everyone else in his bid for the Republican nomination for one of two seats on the Fairfield County Board of Commissioners, with expenditures totaling $37,673.70.
By comparison, his opponent Shupe, who is in her fourth term as county commissioner, spent $13,824.57. She will face off against Stalter in the November General Election.
Shupe's colleague Myers, now in his third term as county commissioner, ran unopposed in the March primary.
''I was fortunate not to have any opposition,'' said Myers, who carried over $1,757.74 from his 2004 campaign.
His expenditures totaled $410.20, including a $100 donation to Citizens to Protect Children and Elderly from Abuse and Neglect.
''I am looking forward to launching an aggressive campaign (against Democratic opponent George Hallarn) this fall and finishing the work I started,'' Myers said.
The board of elections received financial disclosure reports from Citizens for Liberty Union-Thurston Schools and Citizens to Protect Children and Elderly from Abuse and Neglect.
That group raised a total of about $25,000 in support Issue 12, a 10-year, 1-mill operating levy that will generate $2.4 million annually for adult and protective services, according to Mike Orlando, executive director of Fairfield County Job & Family Services.
That measure passed by a vote of 52 percent to 47 percent, according to results from the board of elections.
''We were really blessed to have widespread financial support from local businesses and the community, but the success of the campaign was really (because of) the grassroots efforts by more than 350 community volunteers, who were out communicating our message,'' Orlando said.
Failure to file a campaign finance report is grounds for referral to the Ohio Election Commission, which can impose a fine up to $100 per day, according to the Ohio Secretary of State's Web site, www.sos.state.oh.us.
