The seven candidates in competitive races in tomorrow’s election to represent Oconee County in the Georgia General Assembly entered the final weeks of the campaign in very different financial positions, according to their Campaign Contribution Disclosure Reports.
Marc McMain, one of three Republicans running for the party’s nomination for Senate District 46, was sitting on $201,023 in unused money, having spent $113,710 since the first of the year, more than three-quarters ($87,908) of that going to campaign consultant War Room Strategies.
Doug McKillip, also seeking the party nomination for the Senate District 46 race, had $85,348 in unspent funds at the end of April, but he had spent $361,551 since the start of the year, half of it (50.4 percent) with Art and Copy, a political consulting firm that specializes in direct mail, messaging, and design.
McKillip’s money was all his own, as he took no outside contributions and lent his campaign $400,000 this year, according to the two Campaign Contribution Disclosure Reports he filed with the State Ethics Commission.
Michael Broun, the third contender for the Republican Party nomination for Senate 46 seat, had only $15,628 available at the end of April, having spent $62,895.
Ray Smith, one of the two Democrats seeking that party’s nomination to run for the 46th District Senate seat, had $6,280 available as the May campaign got underway, having spent $14,521 since the first of the year.
The second Democratic candidate, William Gaulden, seems not to have filed a Campaign Contribution Disclosure Report for April 30, but on Jan. 31 he reported having only $275 on hand, having spent nothing on the campaign.
In the Republican contest for House District 120, Ward Black reported having $40,576 available for the final weeks of the campaign, having spent $111,978 on the campaign, with almost 90 percent ($100,688) with consultant War Room Strategies.
Chad Paton, the other contender for the Republican House District 120 nomination, had $24,542 available as of the end of April after he spent $72,817 since the first of the year.
Campaign Reports
Candidates have been required to file two Campaign Contribution Disclosure Reports with the State Ethics Commission this year.
The first was due on Jan. 31, and the second on April 30. Candidates are given a seven-day grace period after the filing deadline.
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Broun, McKillip, McMain, and Gaulden carried forward monies from before the filing period. In the case of Gaulden, it was only the $275 he reported as unspent in his Jan. 31 report. No record of an April report by Gaulden comes up in the Ethic Commission’s Peachfile system.
Broun reported raising $32,025 in his January report and $8,600 in his April report. Only three contributions were at the $3,300 maximum contribution amount.
McKillip lent his campaign $100,000 as reported in his January report and another $300,000 in his April Report.
At the April 21 nonpartisan candidate forum held at Oconee Veterans Park, McKillip had emphasized that he was self-funding his campaign. Broun, McKillip, Gaulden, Smith, and Paton attended that forum, but McMain and Black did not.
McMain reported raising $118,385 in his January report and $57,549 in his April report. Twelve of the January contributions were at the $3,300 allowed maximum. Three of the contributions in the April report were at the maximum level.
Smith reported three contributions at the $3,300 level in his January report and no contribution at the maximum in his April report. He raised $11,582 in January and $9,220 in February, March, and April.
Black reported four contributions at the $3,300 level in his January report and none at that level in April. He reported raising $109,821 in his January report and $42,734 in his April report.
Paton reported raising $39,610 in January and $7,750 in the three months that followed. He listed seven $3,300 contributions in January and none at that level in April.
Uncontested Races
Democrat Suzanna Karatassos, running unopposed in the Democratic Primary tomorrow for House District 120, reported that she had raised $30,620 in her January report and $14,467 in her April report.
The only contribution at the $3,300 maximum level was one she made to her campaign.
House District 121 incumbent Democrat Eric Gisler reported carrying $16,954 forward from his previous campaigns and receiving $5,484 in January before the legislative session began and $9,540 after the session and before the April 30 filing deadline.
None of his contributions were at the $3,300 level.
Gisler reported having $24,336 available for his fall campaign as of the end of April.
Republican Mack “Dutch” Guest IV, unopposed in tomorrow’s Republican Primary for House District 121, reported carrying $102,540 forward from his unsuccessful special election campaign for House District 121 last year.
Guest reported raising $13,450 new money in his Jan. 31 report and $78,400 in his April report.
Guest listed two contributions at the $3,300 maximum in his January report and nine at that level in his April report.
Guest reported having $189,026 available for the fall campaign as of April 30.
All of Oconee County except for the Northeast Precinct is in House District 121. The Northeast Precinct is in House District 120.
All of Oconee County is in Senate District 46.
Election Day voting is from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. tomorrow at the county’s four precinct voting locations.
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