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Sunday, December 12, 2004

Indiana Government - Campaign contributions by Daniels' appointees

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports the following today in its "Political Notebook" (2nd item):

A brief review of campaign finance records finds that at least nine of Gov.-elect Mitch Daniels’ appointments so far gave a collective $41,000 to Daniels’ warchest. Several others gave nothing.

The largest chunk of that amount was $18,000 donated by Michael Maurer, who was named president of the Indiana Economic Development Corp. Maurer will serve for $1 a year.

Edward Mitchell Roob Jr., new Family and Social Services Administration director gave $10,000 and chief of staff Harry Gonso gave $8,000.

To put the cash in perspective, Daniels and opponent Gov. Joe Kernan raised more than $31 million.

“These appointees are going to give a lot more to the state than they ever did to the campaign,” Daniels’ spokesman Marc Lotter said.

You can download a comma-delimited file of 2004 Governor's Contribution Data (1/1/04 - 10/31/04), suitable for dumping into Excel, from the state Indiana Campaign Finance site.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 12, 2004 04:53 PM
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