Dunk Those Donutsby: Kathy Sullivan 2Sat Nov 13, 2010 at 07:53:32 AM EST |
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( - promoted by Dean Barker) When elections end, there is a tendency in NH not to pay attention to the post election financial reports of the losers. The media gets caught up in the legislative session, and no one finds the losers that interesting anymore. We miss things that way, like Sean Mahoney's fec fine after his first congressional race. However, since John Stephen will continue to run for office, despite three significant losses, I decided to look at his Nov. 10 report, in which he disclosed raising $46,000 and some change. $18,000 came from 18 LLC's, all related to a dunkin donut franchise holder named Mark Cafua. 16 of the companies operate stores in NH. Stephen's willingness to avoid donation limits like this speaks volumes. We also don't know how much more money was funneled into groups like NOM and Cornerstone to fund anti-Lynch efforts. In any event, when you drill down and match the various llc donations and individual donations together, a substantial amount of the Stephen's campaign was funded by a small group, including Craig Benson and his affiliates and the donut companies. There is a story there somewhere. |