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First we check
I just posted a comment below from “Cecil.” It’s a comment I received a day or two ago but didn’t post at the time because in it, Cecil made some claims about Mesa County Commissioner candidate David Kearsley. Specifically, Cecil wondered why we hadn’t reported that Kearsley had received a campaign contribution of $20,000 from one individual.
I don’t think it would have been fair to post that comment without first checking out whether in fact Cecil’s claim was correct.
We did. It was.
I suspect, despite the tone of Cecil’s post, that we eventually would have seen that contribution and written about it. We check campaign filings on every candidate periodically. But thank you, Cecil, for pointing it out before we got around to finding it. It is a good story. That’s a very large contribution from one individual. It’s perfectly legal, though. There are no limits on contributions to county commissioner races.
Comments
By Ralphie
July 12, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
Yeah, Denny, I think you get a pass on the Kearsley contributions. Most of us are programmed to check the Secretary of State website around the due date for regular campaign finance reports, which, in the case of the Kearsley-Rowland race, is July 22. The large contributions triggered a special reporting requirement, which the campaign seems to have complied with.
I rarely go cruising the SOS website at times other than the scheduled report dates. There’s rarely any reason to. When I do check the reports around the due date, I check the Major Contributor reports. I’m sure the Sentinel does too.
But I bet you’ll be checking them more often now.