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Anti-recall group raises $7,000
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Committee collects six times more money than the group promoting the recall of Mayor Dennis Dorrah and City Councilor Beverly Calder A committee that supports Baker City Mayor Dennis Dorrah and Councilor Beverly Calder has raised six times more money than the group that urges voters to remove the pair from office through a recall. Ballots were mailed earlier this week to the approximately 5,800 people registered to vote in city elections. Ballots must be returned by 8 p.m. on Oct. 27.The group that supports Dorrah and Calder — Committee to Defeat the Inappropriate Recalls — has received $6,722 in cash and $308 of in-kind contributions since it was formed Sept. 24, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Oregon Elections Division. The pro-recall group, the Recall Dorrah & Calder Committee, has raised $1,124, all from cash contributions. That total includes $728 transferred from two other related committees: the Committee for the Recall of Dennis Dorrah, and the Committee for the Recall of Beverly Calder. After Jamey Hardy of Baker City filed recall petitions against Calder and Dorrah in mid-June, organizers formed a separate committee for each of the two councilors. On Sept. 23 the Recall Dorrah & Calder Committee was formed, with Kathye Corn of Baker City as treasurer. The Committee to Defeat the Inappropriate Recalls is directed by Virginia Kostol and Peggi Timm, both of Baker City. Kostol is the treasurer, and Gary Dielman of Baker City is listed on Elections Division forms as the “alternate filer” and “correspondence recipient.” As of Tuesday, the committee opposing the recall had spent $4,031, with most of the money buying advertisements in the Baker City Herald and Record-Courier, or paying for a pamphlet that was mailed to voters last week. The committee promoting the recall had not spent any of its $1,124 as of Tuesday. The individual committees supporting the recall of Dorrah and Calder spent about $830 this summer to buy campaign signs. Following are campaign finance details for each of the committees. Oregon law does not require political committees to report the names of people who contribute $100 or less during a calendar year, or list the recipients of cash expenditures of $100 or less.
the Inappropriate Recalls INCOME • Cash: $6,722 • In-Kind: $308 • Total: $7,030
• Richard Harris, $2,000 • Dennis Dorrah, $1,094 • Chuck Hofmann, $500 • Randy Daugherty, $500 • Richard Haynes, $500 • More than one dozen anonymous contributions of less than $100
• Baker City Herald, $1,455.97 • Copy Ship & Mail, $1,137.84 • Record-Courier, $724.50 • Tech Copier Systems, $335.93
INCOME • Cash: $1,124 • In-Kind: $0 • Total: $1,124
• SSI Management Corp., $400 (gave $200 each to the Dorrah and Calder recall committees; those committees transferred a total of $728 to the Recall Dorrah and Calder Committee) • Linda Austin, $198 • Carol Petry, $198
• Ne-Hi Enterprises, $830 ($415 each from Dorrah and Calder committees) |
