I’m pretty amazed by the amount of money being spent on local election campaigns this year, despite the lousy economy.
If you want to browse, there are mountains of information available, with the next round of campaign disclosures due on Monday.
In addition to the candidates themselves, we’ve got our share of local “SuperPacs,” at least quasi-independent political action committees that are free to raise and spend unlimited amounts without regard for the normal campaign contribution limits. The Pacific Resource Partnership PAC is leading the way, but there are a bunch of others.
Here’s the list provided by the Campaign Spending Commission, with links to their organization reports (that list the officers of the PAC) as well as their disclosures.
<blockquote>The following is a list of independent expenditure committees that have registered with the Commission for the 2012 elections with links to the 15 independent expenditure committees’ organizational reports and filed disclosure reports:
- AiKea – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- Citizens for a Sustainable North Hawaii – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- Defend Ben – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- Friends For A Safer Honolulu – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- Friends for Jobs and Greener Communities in Hawaii – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- Hawaii Building & Construction Trades Council – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- Hawaii Family Advocates – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- Hawaii Solutions – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- Kauai Women’s Caucus – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- MADPAC Hawaii – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- Pacific Resource Partnership PAC – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- Planned Parenthood of Hawaii Action Network – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- SaveOurHonolulu.com – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- Sierra Club Hawaii PAC – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports
- Workers for a Better Hawaii – Organizational Report / Disclosure Reports</blockquote>
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You missed one. I went to the Campaign Spending Commission Website looking for “Defend Ben’ yesterday…and guess what? It’s gone. They have nasty radio commercials running, but no organizational paper filed. That mean they are violation of the law.
So, now they are “Defend Truth?” How presumptuous. Doesn’t sound like they are defending anything…just slandering people. But, for every ad they ran tagged “Defend Ben” they should be heavily fined.
Very interesting, Ian. What’s up with Friends for Jobs and Greener Communities in Hawaii — the officers are in MN and LA? ? ? I suppose it has to do with jobs building transit oriented developments around train stations and the train using electricity generated from… wind power?
PS: Just received mailing from Friends for Jobs &Greener Communities in HI, “Getting Back to Basics in Honolulu.” Promoting Caldwell. Yup, it’s promoting jobs “especially through public works projects,” and “BIGGEST PUBLIC WORKS PROJECT”… rail & “transit oriented development along its route.” Guess the MN & LA officers must be getting jobs related to rail & TOD also.