Dan Wilbrandt
The second candidate for the GOP nomination to replace State Rep. Mike Tryon is Dan Wilbrandt.
His campaign disclosure filing shows $32,361.42 available on January 1st.
He had $500 in contributions during the last three months of 2015. The contributor who gave over $150 was Maureen Wilbrandt, who contributed $350. She lives in Woodstock.
Wilbrandt spent $7,619.27 during the three-month period.
Here are the expenditures which exceeded $150:
- $4,086 – Awesome Campaigns, Elgin, for yard signs
- $1,404 – Curtis Scott Advertising, Inc., Elmhurst, for palm cards
- $777.58 – Creative Promotional Apparel, Inc., Carpentersville, for sweatshirts and T-shirts
- $681.01 – VistaPrint USA, Inc, Lexington, MA, for magnets and a mailing
- $500 – Cor Strategies Inc, Palatine, consulting
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The story about Carolyn Schofield’s finances can be found here.
I’m sorry but that makes me just sick.
That’s more than I have in income for a year!
Poitics just makes me very ill when I think of all this waste.
Well, Cindy, it costs money to get elected.
How can a person communicate who they are and what they stand for to thousands of voters??
Figure that out and I can assure you, they would be happy not to have to raise money.
Also what they spend brings money and jobs to businesses.
Cindy, I’m sorry that you’re a not very successful person. Your personal failures, however, are not grounds for criticism of others.
It would be nice if somebody who can write a good petition, a lawyer type, that would put forth legislation that would limit political contributions to coming from only within district.
Nob, you do understand an implication of your proposal would be that labor unions would have an even greater unfair advantage in campaign finance because every single union has at least one member in every district?
If the member wants to contribute as a citizen so be it.
If a union local within the district wants to contribute out of their funds, so be it.
They do now anyway.
If a State or Fed union wants to contribute, sorry the money doesn’t come from the district.
No out of district business owners wanting to do business here, sorry.
Have a better way to word it, your turn.
“It would be nice if somebody who can write a good petition, a lawyer type, that would put forth legislation that would limit political contributions to coming from only within district.”
LOL……Setting aside the obvious Constitutional issues with this proposal, do you honestly think that Madigan and his cronies would voluntarily give up some of their best sources of cash?
rawdogger? You are a real asshat.
And that took a lot for me to stoop that low!
Billy Bob, obviously that idea would meet resistance not only from Mike, but from some Reps also.
Are you saying same old same old is the way to you like it?
If you have a better idea, please share it.
Limiting campaign contributions in the way that you suggest is a double edged sword.
It would somewhat keep people out of the process who probably shouldn’t be involved in it, but it would also greatly favor candidates who have the ability to self finance.
It would also give the media a much greater ability to define candidates in the eyes of the voters, and increasing the influence of the press is rarely a good thing.
This whole discussion is probably moot anyways, because the US Supreme Court has taken the view that campaign donations are a form of free speech, so it is highly unlikely that the reforms that you propose would pass muster with them.
Offhand, the only reform that I can think of to help fix the system is TERM LIMITS.
Don’t let the bums stay in office long enough to build their own fiefdoms.