8 Day Campaign Finance Reports Are In … Laura Raised Over 41% of Her Donation from OUT OF TOWN

 

This will be a shocker for those whining about Amir Omar raising too much money from those out-of-towners. According to the 8 day political finance reports, Laura Maczka raised over 41% of her money ($14,250) from out of towners and in an unexpected twist, Amir Omar also raise 41% of his money ($15,905) from out of towners. Amir raise more money that Laura in Richardson as well. I wonder if people will still be whinning about the money Amir Omar raises from those outside Richardson.

According to the financial reports, Amir Omar has raised more in total funds Laura Maczka and has more donors. You will probably not have to wait very long for the Richardson Coalition to make their lies, again, and provide their spin to the reports.

It seems Laura Maczka made a boo-boo and forgot to completely disclose her expenses for the 30 days reports. She filed a correction to indicate she paid Murphy Turner $1000 on the 30 day reports. Hey, people make mistakes and that isn’t the bad part. The bad part, as far as I am concerned is getting into bed with the same political consultants that the Richardson Coalition used.

Just a quick count Amir listed 30 pages of donors which brought the total number of donor for the 8 days report to about 152 for #38,237.

Laura Maczka had 21 pages of donors listing 103 donors who contributed $34,659. It seems Laura lost once again when it comes to transparency. She failed to list the under $50 donors again.

Her good buddy former mayor Gary Slagel ponied up a whopping $100 for her. He must have felt guilty about that donation because he then gave her another donation for $150. The former chief’s wife got into the action with a $500 donation. You might remember some of those facebook posts where the former chief was showing off his roving hands on a certain candidate’s behind. By-gones, it was party time. Good enough excuse. John Murphy gave generously, $250. Bob Townsend stepped up and gave $250. William Keffler, after collecting almost half a million in vacation pay and sick pay over the past several years must have really been feeling generous to give Laura $250!

She even got some PAC money from Halff Associates State PAC, $500. From looking at their webpage it seems like a company that cities hire for various things. Dale Wamsted gave her some big bucks, $5000. Seems I remember the city paying for some infrastructure. Guess it is just payback for all that concrete, water and sewer line. Sweet deal! There was another $5000 from SAF 100 N Central LTD from Dallas. WW! Thank is going to make the Laura people unhappy. Almost a third of the money she raised listed in the report came from outside Richardson, and PAC money to boot.

Here is going to be the real kicker: That positive article and endorsement Laura got in that McKinney blog James J.B. Blocker, well it really wasn’t an endorsement. It was a political ad that she paid the guy to write for her, $800! Ha. Now isn’t that funny. Most of her friends are touting that as a very positive article for her when in fact it is nothing more than bought and paid for political advertising. I wonder is they are going to feel like chumps when they find out. While it is fine for Laura to pay for political advertising, it is a bit dishonest to push it off as an endorsement.

One very important thing I see missing on page 2 is the amount of money the Richardson Coalition (Residents for a Responsive Government) have spent on Laura Maczka’s behalf. So much for being more transparent than Amir Omar.

http://graphics.dc-tm.com/2013-05-03 Maczka Correction to 30 Day.pdf

http://graphics.dc-tm.com/2013-05-03 Maczka 8 Day.pdf

http://graphics.dc-tm.com/2013-05-03 Omar 8 Day.pdf