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Sunday, October 18, 2009
By DEBBIE HALL - Bulletin Staff Writer
The area’s House of Delegates incumbents have considerably larger warchests than their opponents going into the final weeks before the Nov. 3 election.
Campaign finance reports filed by 10th District Del. Ward Armstrong, D-Collinsville, showed he had a balance of $180,948 compared with the $452 balance reported by his opponent, Republican Ed Creed of Claudville, according to information filed Oct. 15 with the state Board of Elections.
Fourteenth District Del. Danny Marshall, R-Danville, reported a balance of $73,735 compared with the $30,827 reported by his opponent, Democrat Seward Anderson of Danville.
Marshall began the cycle with $76,679 and picked up 85 contributions totaling $42,836 between the Sept. 1 through Sept. 30 reporting period. According to the report, 34 were un-itemized cash contributions totaling $2,825; eight were in-kind contributions totaling $15,361; and 43 donations of more than $100 each totaled $24,650.
Contributions of $100 or more from local residents included $1,500 from L.D. Walker; $500 from Ronald Ressel; $250 each from Mike Harris and Randolph Hopkins; and $200 from John F. Edelen Jr., all of Martinsville.
Marshall’s expenses totaled $30,419, including two disbursements of $6,620 and $5,865 for mailing and other services to Creative Direct, Richmond; $3,001 and $2,269 for consulting to Carlyle Gregory Company LLC, Falls Church; and $2,159 for a Federal PR tax deposit to American National Bank & Trust Co., Danville.
Anderson began the Sept. 1 through Sept. 30 reporting cycle with $42,872 on hand and picked up two un-itemized cash contributions totaling $150; five in-kind contributions totaling $20,709; and 20 contributions of more than $100 each totaling $10,290.
None of those contributions were from Henry County or Martinsville residents. Among Anderson’s largest contributions were $5,000 from Sonja Smith, Charlottesville; $1,250 from Jack Thomas, Danville; $1,192 from ActBlue, Cambridge Mass.; and $1,000 from Born Fighting PAC, Washington D.C., according to the report.
His expenses included $14,000 to the House Democratic Caucus for campaign services; $5,521 to Gumbinner & Davies, Washington D.C. for mailing services; and $1,872 to Victory Store for campaign supplies, according to the report.
In the 10th District race, Armstrong started the cycle with $114,574 on hand and received contributions of $98,763, including two un-itemized cash contributions that totaled $125; one in-kind contribution of $7,988 (direct mailing from the Democratic Party of Virginia); and 39 contributions of more than $100 each totaling $90,650.
He received seven local contributions of more than $100 each, all from local dentists and in some cases their wives: Dr. and Mrs. Craig Dietrich, $500; Dr. Raymond F. Mallinak, $150; Dr. J. Peyton Moore Jr., $250; John W. Rhoday, $250; James W. Shearer, $200; Edward P. Snyder, $250; and Dr. John R. Wheless III, $200.
Armstrong’s contributions included $32,500 from the Virginia Automobile & Truck Dealers PAC, Richmond; $19,500 from Virginia Trial Lawyers Association PAC, Richmond; and $10,000 from the Virginia Dental Association PAC, Richmond, the report stated. No other local House candidates had political action contributions exceeding $1,000 each.
Armstrong’s expenses totaled $24,400, and included $7,450 for polling to Myers Research & Strategic Services, Springfield; $1,539 to Stones Phones, Washington D.C. for phones; and $359 for gas to various vendors, according to the report.
Creed’s report showed he had a beginning balance of $683 and he received five contributions totaling $499, including two un-itemized cash contributions totaling $60, two in-kind contributions totaling $339 and one contribution of $100 from former 5th District U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode, Rocky Mount.
Creed’s expenses included $275 for Web and data to Morran Mathew, Roanoke, and fuel costs of $115 paid to various vendors, the report showed. |
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