On 1/19/2011, I reported the cash on hand for Linn County’s ten (10) elected officeholders. Five years have passed – Houser left and came back – Barron retired – Langston is retiring from the County – others have ran for office – and one, Walker, is a newly announced candidate.
The dollar amounts below reflect many different campaign finance philosophies. Vander Sanden never opened a PAC (political action committee) and my PAC is currently closed. Harris, Houser, and Rosenthal’s PACs appear to be in debt. And Oleson has $50K to spend and recently told an audience he needs $75K to execute his campaign plan.
I know of at least one person who plans to run for office in the 2016 primary election, but until that person files an affidavit of candidacy, s/he is not an official candidate.
The time period for candidates to file to run for county office in Iowa is from March 7th – 30th. Every Linn County elected official earns over $100K per year so you would think that fact would generate some interest in the offices up for election.
1/19/2011 – Active County Candidate PAC – Seeking Election in 2016 – 1/19/2016
$50,106.67 – Supervisor Brent Oleson – Yes – $50,592.11
$16,925.42 – Supervisor Lu Barron – retired – $0.00
$10,478.91 – Sheriff Brian Gardner – Yes – $9,581.46
$8,806.73 – Supervisor Linda Langston – retiring – $9,727.90
$3,603.43 – Supervisor John Harris – not up – (-$274.10)
$2,870.44 – Supervisor Ben Rogers – Yes – $16,454.81
$1,599.66 – Recorder Joan McCalmant – not up – $1,599.66
$1,380.59 – Treasurer Sharon Gonzalez – not up – $1,380.59
$343.69 – Auditor Joel Miller – Yes – No PAC
No PAC – Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden – not up – No PAC
$8,356.34 – Supervisor James Houser – not up – (-$2,470.78)
No PAC – Mr. Stacey Walker – Yes – opened PAC on 2/9/2016
$484.19 – Mr. Tomas Podzimek – unknown – $182.77
(-$10,394.11) – Mr. Eric Rosenthal – unknown – (-$11,450.99)
No PAC – Ms. Becky Shoop – no – $1,408.96
No PAC – Ms. Kim Taylor – unknown – $2,431.89
Leave a Reply