Port of Port Angeles election campaign expenses exceed other Clallam races
HERE IS A list of contributions and expenditures for the Port of Port Angeles Position 3 election, in which incumbent John Calhoun faces challenger Brad Collins in Tuesday's general election.
The list is drawn from public records available at the state Public Disclosure Commission's Web site at www.pdc.wa.gov and interviews with the candidates.
Although the occupation of the contributor is noted if the information is given when the contribution is made, contributions listed as being from individuals are from those people, not from the businesses employing them.
Calhoun has raised $9,699.
His contribution list:
• $650, Ken Bechtold Logging, Forks; Norm Schaaf, forester, Merrill & Ring, Port Angeles.
• $350, Jerry Hendricks, Port Angeles.
• $300, Bruch & Bruch Construction, Port Angeles.
• $250, Bert Paul, Forks Outfitters, Forks; Port Angeles Association of Realtors; Sequim Association of Realtors; Dean Hurn, owner, Hoh River Timber, Beaver.
• $200, Rob Tulloch, attorney, Port Angeles; Bert Hendricks, Sequim; David McCraney, project manager, Grette Associates, Tacoma.
• $150, Grant and Carol Munro, Port Angeles; Brando Blore, paper operator at Nippon Paper Industries USA, Port Angeles.
• $100, Clyde Boddy, Port Angeles; Don Hoy, Port Angeles; Dick Pilling, Port Angeles; Lloyd Allen, Forks; Ann Forest Burns, Milwaukie, Ore.; Jack Banner, Beaver; Debbie Hines, Port Angeles; Jeff and Linda McGinley, Forks; John Dematties, Sherico Cedar Products, Forks; Bart Irwin, Port Angeles; Samuel Haworth, Port Angeles; Gary and Patty Lang, Forks; Carol Johnson, Port Angeles; James Cammack, Port Angeles; Marilyn Irwin, Port Angeles,
• $99, Bruce Paul, Forks.
• $80, Ron Shepard, Port Angeles Boat Haven.
• $50, Richard Hsu, Forks; Harry and Maria Bell, Port Angeles; Eric Fanelli, Port Angeles; Rene Davis, Forks; Dennis Jamison, El Cajon, Calif; Ted Spoelstra, Forks; Kaj Ahlburg, Port Angeles; Mark and Patty Hannah, Port Angeles.
• $40, John Hillcar, Forks; Wayne Ratcliff, Port Angeles.
Calhoun also loaned his campaign $5,263.
Expenditures: Includes $5,547 to Laurel Black Design Inc. of Port Angeles for design and production of donation envelopes, magnetic car signs, a campaign log, buttons, a banner and 4-foot-by-8-foot yard signs; $3,058 for newspaper and radio advertising; and $1,263 to repay Calhoun for a loan to his campaign.
Collins has raised $3,500.
His contribution list:
•$250, Port Angeles Association of Realtors, Sequim Association of Realtors.
• $100,Dick Petit, retired, Sequim; Lynn Mattix, crane business owner, Port Angeles; Jim Mattix, crane business owner, Port Angeles; Len Beil, retired, Port Angeles.
• $50, Kathy Wahto, nonprofit director; Jerry Austin, property manager, Port Angeles; Margaret Schwarz, retired, Sequim; Doug Schwarz, retired, Sequim; Candace Burkhardt, Port Angeles; Paul Cronauer, property developer and business owner, Port Angeles; Vonnie DeForest, retired, Sequim.
Collins also loaned his campaign $1,600.
Expenditures include $850 for newspaper and radio advertising, $560 for Web site development, $700 for 100 yard, vehicle and car signs, and $200 for county fair rental.
The list is drawn from public records available at the state Public Disclosure Commission's Web site at www.pdc.wa.gov and interviews with the candidates.
Although the occupation of the contributor is noted if the information is given when the contribution is made, contributions listed as being from individuals are from those people, not from the businesses employing them.
Calhoun has raised $9,699.
His contribution list:
• $650, Ken Bechtold Logging, Forks; Norm Schaaf, forester, Merrill & Ring, Port Angeles.
• $350, Jerry Hendricks, Port Angeles.
• $300, Bruch & Bruch Construction, Port Angeles.
• $250, Bert Paul, Forks Outfitters, Forks; Port Angeles Association of Realtors; Sequim Association of Realtors; Dean Hurn, owner, Hoh River Timber, Beaver.
• $200, Rob Tulloch, attorney, Port Angeles; Bert Hendricks, Sequim; David McCraney, project manager, Grette Associates, Tacoma.
• $150, Grant and Carol Munro, Port Angeles; Brando Blore, paper operator at Nippon Paper Industries USA, Port Angeles.
• $100, Clyde Boddy, Port Angeles; Don Hoy, Port Angeles; Dick Pilling, Port Angeles; Lloyd Allen, Forks; Ann Forest Burns, Milwaukie, Ore.; Jack Banner, Beaver; Debbie Hines, Port Angeles; Jeff and Linda McGinley, Forks; John Dematties, Sherico Cedar Products, Forks; Bart Irwin, Port Angeles; Samuel Haworth, Port Angeles; Gary and Patty Lang, Forks; Carol Johnson, Port Angeles; James Cammack, Port Angeles; Marilyn Irwin, Port Angeles,
• $99, Bruce Paul, Forks.
• $80, Ron Shepard, Port Angeles Boat Haven.
• $50, Richard Hsu, Forks; Harry and Maria Bell, Port Angeles; Eric Fanelli, Port Angeles; Rene Davis, Forks; Dennis Jamison, El Cajon, Calif; Ted Spoelstra, Forks; Kaj Ahlburg, Port Angeles; Mark and Patty Hannah, Port Angeles.
• $40, John Hillcar, Forks; Wayne Ratcliff, Port Angeles.
Calhoun also loaned his campaign $5,263.
Expenditures: Includes $5,547 to Laurel Black Design Inc. of Port Angeles for design and production of donation envelopes, magnetic car signs, a campaign log, buttons, a banner and 4-foot-by-8-foot yard signs; $3,058 for newspaper and radio advertising; and $1,263 to repay Calhoun for a loan to his campaign.
Collins has raised $3,500.
His contribution list:
•$250, Port Angeles Association of Realtors, Sequim Association of Realtors.
• $100,Dick Petit, retired, Sequim; Lynn Mattix, crane business owner, Port Angeles; Jim Mattix, crane business owner, Port Angeles; Len Beil, retired, Port Angeles.
• $50, Kathy Wahto, nonprofit director; Jerry Austin, property manager, Port Angeles; Margaret Schwarz, retired, Sequim; Doug Schwarz, retired, Sequim; Candace Burkhardt, Port Angeles; Paul Cronauer, property developer and business owner, Port Angeles; Vonnie DeForest, retired, Sequim.
Collins also loaned his campaign $1,600.
Expenditures include $850 for newspaper and radio advertising, $560 for Web site development, $700 for 100 yard, vehicle and car signs, and $200 for county fair rental.
By Paul Gottlieb
Peninsula Daily News
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The port race for Position 3 is the only countywide election among 17 seats up for grabs. Ballots were mailed out Oct. 14 and must be postmarked or returned by 8 p.m. Tuesday.
The port commission president, who has served for six years, said that he has to run as if he were an underdog.
"I've got an uphill battle," said Calhoun, 65, a Forks resident who is the director of the University of Washington Olympic Natural Resources Center, College of the Environment.
He said Collins, the former city of Port Angeles community development director and a current deputy director at Serenity House of Clallam County, has the advantage in name recognition.
"Brad has a big advantage over me," Calhoun said.
"He's well-known in Port Angeles. I'm really running as an underdog and an outsider."
Collins said that Calhoun has name recognition by being the incumbent and by frequently having his name in the news as a port commissioner.
Calhoun has spent more than $5,000 of his own money in the campaign, according to public records filed with the state Public Disclosure Commission.
Because Calhoun has raised more than $5,000, he must report all contributions and expenditures to the PDC.
Collins contributions
Collins' election contributions include $1,600 of his own money.
Because his war chest is less than $5,000, the state does not require him to file contribution or expenditure reports with the PDC, except for individual contributions of $500 or more.
He must report those larger contributions, and must make his records available to the public eight days before the election, PDC spokeswoman Lori Anderson said.
Collins, 61, is deputy director of resource development and capital projects for Serenity House of Clallam County.
His campaign director is Kathy Wahto, Serenity House executive director.
Calhoun's contributions include $100 each from former port executive directors Clyde Boddy and Chris Anderson of Port Angeles, and $350 from former port Executive Director Jerry Hendricks of Port Angeles.
His largest contribution is $650 from Forks logging company owner Ken Bechtold.
He and Collins each also received $250 each from the Sequim Association of Realtors.
Collins' contributors include Len Beil, a former port commissioner who gave Collins' campaign $266.39.
No solicitations
Collins said that he has not solicited contributions, but that his opponent has.
Collins said Calhoun took contributions from donors with a "vested interest" in the port over the last 20 years.
Calhoun has solicited contributions from the timber industry, which he works in and is familiar with, he said.
"I'm proud to have a broad, deep base of people who support me enough to make contributions to my campaign," Calhoun said. "I'm not backing off that."
Collins also said Calhoun "changed his mind" about not spending more than $5,000 after the two discussed election spending early on in the campaign, adding that he kept his own pledge to run a "low-key" campaign.
That's not how Calhoun remembered it.
"That's over-descrbing it, to call it an agreement," Calhoun said.
"[Collins] said he wasn't going to spend over $5,000, and I said I didn't think I was going to either. Then I did the budget for the campaign, and got the cost down and it was obvious to me that it would cost more than $5,000 to do what I wanted to do."
Calhoun also suggested Collins' campaign was low-key because he had no other choice.
"That's what I'd say if I couldn't raise the money as well," Calhoun said.
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Staff writer Paul Gottlieb can be reached at 360-417-3536 or at paul.gottlieb@peninsuladailynews.com.
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