Monday, July 29, 2013

Running Tidbits from the Cameron County Campaign Finance Reports

Election Administrator Chris Davis
Election Administrator Chris Davis explained to the Brownsville Herald his motivation for posting campaign finance reports on the Cameron County Elections Office website:  
“I wanted to stay true to what I promised when I took this job, which was to enhance the transparency of the elections office."

Locating a specific report involves clicking on the year of the election, then the specific due date of the reports, and finally, the beginning letter of the last name.  It will take a disciplined, systematic approach to glean information from all of the reports, including contributors and expenditures.


Quickly checking a couple of reports due July 26, 2012,  a few things popped out.  Jared Hockema, a candidate for Cameron County Democratic Chair reported $81,303.04 in contributions including a $75,000 personal loan to his campaign.  He added another $5,730 with a personal contribution, while reporting additional outside contributions of $500 and $100.  Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the county chair a non-paying position?

The Hockema campaign paid wages to Hilaro Cisneros, Ovidio Cisneros, Jr., Ovidio Cisneros, Sr., Joey Garza, Roberto Hensley and Rose Melendez.

A report filed by Erin H. Garcia, candidate for Justice of the Peace, 2-2 for the same time frame listed a campaign contribution from John W. Cowen for $1000, but also a contribution from James Escobedo.  Her campaign paid Pink Ape Media (Rodrigo Moreno?) $2150 for advertising, but also paid her husband, Doroteo Garcia, Jr., $1200 for food and beverages.  Was that a reimbursement?

Typically all of the reports are stamped with the seal of a notary public, who also fills in his/her name, when the commission expires and names a witness to the signing.  Abelardo Gomez, a candidate for constable, has only an unreadable stamp at the bottom of his report.


3 comments:

  1. HEY, CONGRATULATIONS TO CRIS (EL GUERO) DAVIS CABRONES!!! SUCH A SIMPLE MOVE ON THE PART OF HIS OFFICE WILL MAKE IT MUCH EASIER FOR FINACIAL INFORMATION REQUESTS TO HIS OFFICE TO BE EXPEDITED. KEEP IT UP GUERO!!!

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  2. Pink Ape Rodrigo fees run from $30,000. - $70,000, when and how is Erin paying Rodrigo the rest of the money.

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  3. Erin, like her father, use people to get elected then never pay or fulfil their promises, they are the scum of the earth, the politiqueras were forced to commit elegal acts for her like picking up the ballots and bringing them to Norma so she could discard the ones she could not alter and alter the ones she could, and when she got in trouble, erin thought it was convinient to distance herself from her. She did not pay the politiqueras, she did not pay the people who rented her space to put up her signs. The people that got payed like the daycare centers and the vans to houl people were payed by Masso and Gomez, she did not pay Rodrigo either

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