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You might be surprised who the top donors to the Lane County Republican Party are (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by letsmakeafriendship@lemmy.world to c/eugene@lemmy.world

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Did some light reading today through the campaign finance sections of several GOP PACs to see which local businesses might be donating to them. I figured that like looking through local health inspector reports, there might be a few surprises. As they say, every dollar is a vote, so hopefully you can use this information to vote with your dollars.

Here's our top direct donors to the Lane County Republican Central Committee since 2017

Crisdental (Dental practice) $3800 in 2023
Third Generation Painting $1000 in 2020
Staton Companies (contractor) $1000 in 2020
Builder's Electric $500 in 2019
Camp Creek Electric $500 in 2019
Centennial Steakhouse $460 in 2020
Northwest Arsenal $300 in 2019
Papa's Pizza $250 (in-kind contribution) in 2018
Tomlin Benefit Planning (insurance agency) $250 in 2020
KKNX and KEED Radio $200 in 2020
Wynat's Family Nutrition (health food store) $200 in 2019

*I'm only including names of companies consumers might actually recognize. There's a number of other individuals, PACs and various LLCs you've probably never heard of which rank highly on these lists

Some other honorable mentions:

Clairmont-Kincaid Apartments $500 to Friends of Christine Drazan
Ray's Towing $1000 to Friends of Christine Drazan

PS All this information is public record, you can do your own digging here

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[–] lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Papa's Pizza $250 (in-kind contribution) in 2018

Does this mean they gave away a lot of pizza to some event?

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

With Papa's, it's more like "pizza." I don't know why anyone eats whatever you call those stiff, gummy abominations that come out of their ovens.

[–] viridianforge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Given their pizza fundraisers - would make sense. Also lines up with the FEC's definition of an in-kind contribution.

[–] magnetmagician@kolektiva.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@letsmakeafriendship Honesty surprised to not see Elk Horn Brewing on there

[–] letsmakeafriendship@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same. Many business owners donate individually instead of as a business, so it could be they donated that way. I didn't do through the trouble of matching up individual donors to business names.