RAPID CITY - The five Rapid City candidates who missed Tuesday's pre-election campaign-finance reporting deadline all filed their reports with the city finance office by Friday.
Mayoral candidate Patrick Dowling reported no campaign contributions and spent $207 in personal funds for printing costs. Fellow mayoral candidate Jerry Knispel also raised no money and spent $10 of his own money for advertising.
Among city council candidates who filed late, Ward 4 candidate Ida Fast Wolf reported no contributions and no expenditures, and Lori Hadley, also a Ward 4 candidate, reported receiving no campaign contributions but spent about $170 in personal funds, mostly on postage.
Ward 5 candidate Bob Hurlbut raised $1,020 in individual donations and $1,882 in contributions from political action committees, including $1,000 from All South Dakota PAC, $500 from Black Hills Homebuilders PAC, $250 from the South Dakota Realtors PAC and $132.99 from Streamline PAC. Hurlbut spent $384.50 on advertising and has about $2,518 on hand.
Another council candidate, Ward 2 incumbent Deb Hadcock, who met Tuesday's filing deadline, clarified items inadvertently left off her report. On Friday, her campaign treasurer said Hadcock is returning $500 received recently from the All South Dakota PAC and $250 from the Black Hills homebuilders PAC, because all of her campaign expenses have been met, and she didn't need the money.
The Elect Better Government political action committee reported $71,500 in contributions from businessman Doug Hamilton. The PAC reported three payments to Mayor Jim Shaw, totaling $70,500, and listed an $834.75 payment to Steve Rolinger with outgoing Alderman Mike Schumacher's name in parenthesis. Rolinger lost to Lloyd LaCroix in a Ward 4 runoff election last year.
Mayor Jim Shaw, who reported spending about $82,000 in his finance report, sent a mass e-mail through his election-related Web site Friday stating that though he has received more than $70,000 through Hamilton's PAC, over $50,000 of those funds were raised at a 2004 Williams and Ree fundraiser for his 2005 campaign, in which he was unopposed.
Shaw wrote that more than 400 people contributed to his campaign at that event, so not all of the PAC money in this year's report came from a single individual.
The city's municipal election is Tuesday, June 5.
Contact Scott Aust at 394-8415, or scott.aust@rapidcityjournal.com
