Money and the 92nd Assembly District Democratic Primary Campaign Part III

In Part I, I covered the the candidates' financial disclosures through late May.  Part II reported on Abinanti's amendments to his pervious financial report.   Now, we have new "11 day pre-primary" financial disclosures" to review.   Here are the financial totals now including the May 23 through June 13 times period covered by the 11 Day Pre Primary Filing, as well as the to-date raised and spent totals.  

Abinanti's latest haul looks impressive but includes $16,008 from four members of one Greenwich CT household.  In this post-May 23 reporting period, in-district individuals gave Abinanti $3,100, PACs also gave $3,100 (including a NYS Psychiatric PAC contribution backdated to May 1) and the Mt Pleasant Democratic Committee gave $2,500.  The remaining $1,150 came from other out of district individuals. 

Shimsky's contributions post-May 23 include $6,135 from individuals, of whom at least $655 live in district (Shimsky's contributions also include $330 that are unitemized and probably include some in-district donors).   Shimsky received $3000 from PACs (including a $2,500 "24 hour notice" contribution from the NYS Laborers PAC reported on 6/20) and another $1,000 from the Kearney Group, a real estate company.  Two individuals also named Kearney contributed: $5,000 of the $10,135 that Shimsky raised since May 23 came from the Kearney Group and individuals named Kearney (these individuals and the Kearney Group have given Shimsky $7,000 cumulatively over the course of the campaign).

SPENDING

Shimsky's biggest expense by far in the campaign to date has been $35,538 paid to Red Horse Strategies, a DC based political management/consultancy group, for nearly 80% of her spending. The Red Horse total includes $23,137 described as mailings.  Another consultant, Carolyn Stevens of Ossining, has received $2,000 from the campaign.  The remaining campaign expenses look to be typical office and fundraising costs.  

Abinanti's largest expense is $21,000 paid to date to campaign manger Damaris Mone of Mount Vernon.    He has also paid Jeffrey Sayegh of Yonkers $2,000 for unidentified services.  Another campaign expenditure is $4747 paid to  The Robex Agency of Rochester, NY It is not clear to me what Robex does that is related to a political campaign.  Abinanti's most puzzling campaign expense is $7,512 paid over several months to American Express for unidentified expenses.