Rob Kane Qualifies for the Citizens Election Program
Republican candidate Rob Kane, of Watertown, has been certified as a qualifying candidate by the State Elections Enforcement Commission. Nominated by the 32nd District Republican Convention on December 4th, Mr. Kane was required to raise $11,250 and receive contributions from 225 in-district donors in order to qualify for the Citizens Election Program (CEP) public financing grant. He will receive a grant of $63,750 from CEP in the coming days.
On Monday, December 17, Mr. Kane filed his report with SEEC, detailing a total dollars raised figure of $14,200 - well over the $11,250 threshold. In fact, Rob’s campaign raised $11,495 from within the district. Perhaps most heartening, of the 393 total contributors to Mr. Kane’s effort, 362 lived within the ten towns that make up the 32nd District - Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Middlebury, Oxford, Roxbury, Seymour, Southbury, Thomaston, Watertown, and Woodbury.
 The Citizens Election Program requires that candidates for office reach two thresholds in order to qualify for CEP public financing grants. A candidate must raise a minimum amount of money - in a regular election, $15,000 for State Senate and $5,000 for the State House. Additionally, of these contributions, a minimum number of the contributors must live within the towns touched by the district - 300 donors for the Senate and 150 for the House. The maximum allowable contribution is $100 and the minimum is $5. Lobbyists and state contractors with contracts valued at more than $5000 are not permitted to contribute. Upon qualifying, Senate candidates will receive a contribution of $85,000 and House candidates receive $25,000 - bringing the maximum amount of money to be spent on Senate campaigns to be $100,000 and $30,000 for the House of Representatives. Republican State Representative Jason Perillo of Shelton was the first candidate in Connecticut state history to qualify for and receive public grant money, when he ran in the special election to fill Rep. Dick Belden’s seat on October 9th, 2007.
December 19th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
I understand Ken Curran is accepting donations of Funions, Pineapple soda and Dungeons & Dragons dice for his campaign, so that probably slowed him down a bit.
December 19th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Also perhaps Mr. Curran’s proclivity for calling people in the middle of the night and threatening them is hurting his effort…
http://www.everydayrepublican.com/2007/12/14/ill-bet-he-would-rather-not-blog-today/
December 19th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
That’s wonderful news. Who can I contact to volunteer on the campaign?
December 19th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
E-mail me at davealex@optonline.net and I will get you his full time assistants name and e-mail address. That goes for anyone else who wants to volunteer too. I hope to see you out there on the trail. Money obviously isn’t needed but manpower will be important. This is an exciting race because although the seat has been Republican for 100 years, the Dems do have a substantial number of AFL-CIO numbers in the district. Get out to vote campaigns are going to be huge. As far as the $63,750 goes- it’s a disgrace that the Democrats pushed this through. When Curran qualifies, taxpayers will be hit with a $127,500 bill for a 4 week election in which both sides will have a hard time squandering all of that money.
December 19th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Our tax dollars, hard at work!
January 9th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
# 4 Fly Right Says:
December 19th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
E-mail me at davealex@optonline.net and I will get you his full time assistants name and e-mail address. That goes for anyone else who wants to volunteer too. I hope to see you out there on the trail. Money obviously isn’t needed but manpower will be important. This is an exciting race because although the seat has been Republican for 100 years, the Dems do have a substantial number of AFL-CIO numbers in the district. Get out to vote campaigns are going to be huge. As far as the $63,750 goes- it’s a disgrace that the Democrats pushed this through. When Curran qualifies, taxpayers will be hit with a $127,500 bill for a 4 week election in which both sides will have a hard time squandering all of that money.
And Rell signed the bill? For shame…