San Jorge’s mayoral and city council candidates submitted their final crusade reports a week before fast-approaching Election Day on Nov. 2.
These reports were submitted through the candidates, and the first set of reports was submitted before the August 10 primaries.
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Overall, just under $39,000 was raised for the mayoral race, while about $37,000 was spent. For the City Council race, a little over $50,000 was raised and just under $38,000 spent.
You can view the full financial reports of the crusade by following this link.
The Washington County Council of Realtors is the largest donor, giving a total of $16,491. 47 to 4 other applicants in the mayor and city council elections. The only applicants who did not get a donation from this council were Greg Aldred and Michelle Tanner.
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Other active donors in this race were Lowry Snow, a state representative representing the 74th district and current City Council member Bryan Smethurst, from whom he donated several candidates.
The deadline for this year’s postmark is Nov. 1, the day before official Election Day on Nov. 2, but you can send a poll in one of the county’s six mailboxes on Election Day until 8 p. m. and your survey will be counted.
In-person voting on Election Day is also an option for St. John’s. George at the Dixie Convention Center (1835 S. Convention Center Dr. , St. George).
Michèle Randall
Main Report Balance: $14,829. 59
Total contributions: $29,729. 59
Total Expenses: $29,090. 44
Final Balance: $639. 15
Randall is the incumbent and has outraged his opponent, Councilman Jimmie Hughes, in any of the crusade’s financial reports. In the main report, Randall had just under $27,000 to spend while Hughes had about $11,000. In recent peak reports, Randall said she had just under $30,000 in pocket money, has raised nearly $15,000 since elementary school. Hughes had raised $8,990. 36 since elementary school.
Randall’s largest crusade donor, G-Enterprises Inc. , which gave $5,000. This company spends itself as G-Companies online and the company operates restaurants, a genuine real estate portfolio and investments in public securities and personal businesses, according to its website. The registered sales agent for G-Enterprises is Doug Glendenning, according to Utah Companies. Division.
His next donation came here from Justin Reber, who donated $2,500.
Randall also won $500 from Republican Women Lead, a political action committee that recruits, trains and provides money to Republican women in Utah, according to her website. This organization made donations to the 3 women applicants in St. George.
Other notable donations come with $650 from Snow State Representative and $1,500 from the Washington County Board of Realtors, whose executive director, Vardell Curtis, is a seat on the city council. Randall also received $500 from Bright Morning Star Daycare and Metcalf Morgue.
The biggest expense of Randall’s crusade was direct mail; Spent $11,305. 16 on provisions through Consolidated Direct Mail Inc. But this expense was just one of many expenses in Randall’s advertising budget. In total, his crusade spent just under $22,000 on direct mail, crusade posters, and radio and internet ads.
One of Randall’s biggest advertising expenses was for St. George News, who was given $2,000 from his campaign. Another $1,625 donated to Canyon Media, owner of St. George News and several local radio stations. Randall also spent $1,995 on ads for Cherry Creek Media, which owns six radio stations.
Randall also donated $1,000 from his crusade in cash to the Major Brent Taylor Foundation, which was established after Major Brent Taylor assassinated in Afghanistan in 2018.
Jimmie Hughes
Main Report Balance: $1,002. 90
Total contributions: $8,900. 36
Total expenses: $ 8,129. 09
Final Balance: $771. 27
Hughes has served on the city council since 2011 and his candidacy for mayor has been largely self-funded, winning outdoor donations. In the recent maximum monetary report, Hughes gave his crusade $3,500, which is enough to make him the biggest donor to his own crusade. In his main monetary report, Hughes said he donated $3,835. 22 of his cash to his crusade and earned another $4,500 from a company he ran: Hughes Mortuary.
Other major donors come with the Washington County Board of Realtors, which gave $1,500 to Hughes, the same amount in money the council gave its competitor, and Feller Enterprises donated $2,000, which is the largest donation in Hughes’ existing monetary report.
Feller Enterprises is a corporate structure that specializes in “commercial and progression projects,” according to its website. Feller Enterprises’ registered agent is Tyson Feller, according to the Utah Division of Business.
Rick Erickson, who narrowly missed the city council at number one in August and when a new city council member was appointed in January, donated $177. 46 to Hughes.
Hughes had a short list of expenses, six items, but they were expensive items, two that cost less than $1,000.
Hughes’ biggest spend on radio and Internet ads: He donated $4,305 to Canyon’s media companies, and $2,200 went directly to St. George News, while the rest went to Canyon Media.
Hughes, like Randall, invested in direct mail and crusade posters. He spent $1,000 on Valpak mail and about $633. 20 on Steamroller Copies posters.
Vardell Curtis
Main Balance: $5,619. 14
Total contributions: $28,592. 40
Total expenditure: $22,686. 74
Final Balance: $11,524. 80
Curtis, the only incumbent in the city council race to have passed the August primary, is seeking his first elected term since being appointed to his council seat in January. Curtis raised $28,592. 40, the maximum cash among city council candidates.
The largest donor organization for Curtis were teams of genuine real estate agents who gave him about $15,500 in total. Curtis earned just $10,500 from the Washington County Council of Realtors (Curtis is the CEO of that organization) and another $5,000 from Utah. Association of Real Estate Agents.
Curtis also earned $1,000 from the Southern Utah Home Builders Association and $1,000 from Payback65, which the report said is affiliated with John Ames, a genuine local real estate agent.
Another genuine heritage-focused company, Tech Ridge LLC, the 180-acre mixed-use progression organization on the site of the former St. George’s, donated $4,000 to Curtis. Isaac Barlow is the indexed advertising agent for this LLC, according to the Utah Division of Companies. During the August primary, this LLC donated $2,000 to another city council member, Bryan Smethurst, but lost in the primary.
Even though Smethurst lost, he has been active since number one since donating to several city council candidates, adding $1,000 he gave to Curtis. City Council nominee Natalie Larsen also won $1,000 from Smethurst.
Other notable southern Utah politicians also donated to Curtis, state Sen. Don Ipson who donated $1,000, and Rep. Snow State who donated $350.
Curtis’ biggest expense was direct mail, in which he lost $10,634. 40 provided through consolidated direct mail. Other expenses of more than $1,000 earmarked for advertising and marketing.
Curtis focused on radio commercials, sending $4,000 each to Cherry Creek Media and Canyon Media; another $500 sent to St. George News; but it also spent on virtual classified ads and $1,000 on Facebook and Instagram.
But the signing expenses of the crusade would possibly have been less than $1,000 for Curtis, who only spent about $993 on copies of Steamroller. At elementary school, signage was Curtis’ biggest expense at about $1,316.
Greg Aldred
Main Balance: $2. 78
Total contributions: $2,752. 70
Total Expenses: $2,642. 52
Final Balance: $110. 26
Aldred had the least cash to spend of all the applicants for the town hall; it is the only one that has raised less than $5,000. Most of the cash from his crusade came from donations from individuals, but his crusade was imbued with a giant donation from a political action committee.
That committee is the Liberty Action Coalition, a politically active right-wing organization, which donated $1,500 to Aldred. The next largest contribution, Aldred, won $300 from Sandra Olson.
Aldred’s biggest expense was $700, which was purchased from Valpak and used for direct mail. Other expenses included $450 in Steamroller Copies posters, $1,348 in media commercials. That $1,348 went to 3 other media companies, adding $520 to Canyon Media, $486 to Cherry Creek Media, and $342 to Red Rock Media.
Nathalie Larsen
Main Balance: $675. 6
Total contributions: $13,249. 07
Total Expenses: $10,069. 79
Final Balance: $3,854. 94
Larsen raised and spent the largest sum of cash of the time among city council candidates, raising more than $13,000 and spending more than $10,000.
Larsen’s largest donor, the Washington County Council of Realtors, donated $2,999. 07 to him, and then used the cash for the Utah Association of Realtors, which connected Larsen to a seller who provided direct mail services, according to Larsen.
His next largest expense was $2,249. 69, which went to Steamroller Copies for panels.
One of the largest sums of cash used through Larsen’s crusade was radio and web ads. He spent $1,000 on the St. George News and another $429 went to Canyon Media. But Larsen didn’t spend cash on a set of singles radio ads; He spent another $1,197 on those provided through Cherry Creek Media. Larsen also bought a value of $120 worth of Facebook ads.
Larsen’s largest donor at the time is G-Enterprises, which donated $2,500 As discussed earlier in this article, this company spends itself as G-Companies online and the company operates restaurants, a genuine real estate portfolio, and investments in public securities and businesses, according to its website.
Larsen won $250 from Republican Women Lead, a political action committee that recruits, trains and provides money to Republican women in Utah. This is the lowest amount awarded to a candidate of this organization in San Jorge.
Other notable contributions come with $300 from Snow State Representative and $1,000 from Smethurst, the current City Council member.
Riverside Express is a company that donated to Larsen and donated $500. This company operates under the so-called Dino Dash Car Wash and the registered advertising agent is Randy Simonsen, according to the Utah Division of Companies.
Michelle Tanner
Main Report Balance: $2,475. 01
Total contributions: $5,935
Total Expenses: $2,566. 55
Final Balance: $5,843
Tanner is the candidate in the St. George election who has won donations from two other political action committees: liberty action coalition and Republican Woman Lead. These donations accounted for 23. 6% of their contributions, with the Liberty Action Coalition donating $1,000 and the Republican Woman lead $400.
Tanner’s other donors were generally individuals, some corporations donating to his crusade. Decimus Digital Solutions, a Vernal, Utah-based corporation that is helping “pro-freedom” businesses, provided an in-kind contribution of $805 — a contribution covering a service rather than a financial donation — to Tanner’s crusade website.
The other company that contributed to Tanner is The Grip Fitness, a gym known for being a medium for competition on the “American Ninja Warrior” television screen. The Grip donated $600 to Tanner.
The largest expense of Tanner’s crusade was $700 in mail provided through Valpak. His next largest spend was $549. 05 on rainbow signs.
Tanner’s advertising budget is more modest than the other candidates’, spending $500 for Canyon Media Group and $400 for Green Pages/Dixie Direct.
Sean Hemmersmeier covers local government, expansion, and progress in southwestern Utah. Follow @seanhemmers34 on Twitter. Our paintings on subscribers, so if you need more policies on those topics, you can subscribe here: Arraythespectrum. com/subscribe.