Richard Stuart, candidate for the GOP nod in the 28th Senate Dist., has raised a total of $183,456 from just 9 sources and his own out-of-pocket contributions and done so essentially during a “no-man’s land” period of campaign finance reporting. As a result, until now the public has not been able to take stock of these whopping contributions from Chi-ching-e$ter, Norment, Wampler, the VA Senate Leadership Trust (a.k.a. Chi-ching-e$ter & Co.’s Piggy Bank), a developer from Maryland (“RC Development” incorrectly listed on the report as being in Virginia — correct info is here), a company that supplies materials to developers, and an insurance executive. A copy of the report from the Virginia State Board of Elections of Large Pre-Election Contributions follows below:
| Committee : Stuart for Senate Address : Post Office Box 1146 , Montross , VA , 22520 |
| Contributor Name/Address | Donor | Date Received | Contribution this period | *Aggregate to date | |
| Chichester for Senate ,
PO Box 7536 Fredericksburg VA
|
Virginia Senator – Richmond, VA |
4/30/2007 | 20,000 | 20,000 | |
| James C. Jankowski ,
4001 Hanover Avenue Richmond VA
|
RhumbLine, LLC – Attorney – Richmond, VA – - |
4/27/2007 | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
| Stephen D. Schiller ,
10401 Looking Glass Road Richmond VA
|
US Dept of Justice – Asst. U.S. Attorney – Richmond, VA – - |
4/26/2007 | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
| Richard H. Stuart , Post Office
Box 1146 Montross VA
|
Candidate – Attorney at Law – Montross, VA – Candidate pre File Fee – Actual Cost |
4/20/2007 | 2,500 | 22,000 | |
| Richard H. Stuart , Post Office
Box 1146 Montross VA
|
Candidate – Legal Services – Montross, VA – Banners – Actual Cost |
5/4/2007 | 5,262.95 | 24,500 | |
| Virginia Senate Republican Leadership Trust , 4551 Cox Road Glen Allen VA | PAC – PAC – Glen Allen, VA – Contribution – Actual Cost | 5/10/2007 | 11,000 | 29,763 | |
| Friends of Tommy Norment , Post Office
Box 6205 Williamsburg VA
|
Senator – Candidate – Williamsburg, VA – Contribution – Actual Cost |
5/10/2007 | 3,667 | 40,763 | |
| R. Hunter Morin ,
328 Ecco Drive Fredericksburg VA
|
GeMroi Company – President – Fredericksburg, VA – Contribution – Actual Cost |
5/7/2007 | 1,000 | 44,430 | |
| James A. Patterson ,
14 Lessies Drive Poquoson VA
|
Progressive Insuance – Lawyer – Newport News – Contribution – Actual Cost |
5/4/2007 | 1,000 | 45,429 | |
| RC Development, LC ,
1300 Piccard Drive Rockville VA
|
Commerical Developer – Developer – Rockville, VA – Contribution – Actual Cost |
5/11/2007 | 5,000 | 46,430 | |
| Wampler for Senate ,
448 Cummings Street Abingdon VA
|
Senator – Candidate – Abingdon, VA – Contribution – Actual Cost |
5/11/2007 | 4,000 | 51,430 | |
| Total this Period =
Total this Cycle = |
$55,429.95
$183,456.00 |
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If one is known by the company that he keeps, this finance report is very, very troubling.
Filed under: 2007 Elections, Stafford County Politics, Virginia General Assembly
FYI at tonight’s Stafford County forum Stuart was asked, “If one of your primary opponents gets the Republican nomination, will you support them and give them the money you have raised?”
His answer…”From our party? Yes.”
I’m thinking Jon Myers is going to have some big bucks to go up against Pollard!
I submitted that question to get Stuart on the record. Whoever wins Saturday should expect his resources being thrown to the nominee or we can ask Mr. Howell which party HE is in. Stuart clearly has the most money and should dedicate it to the nominee.
As an extremely competitive person, I love to win. But the game face was on last night toward my fellow GOP’ers. All I could see was the enemy when I should have been chatting up some of the hot single women there last night. Anyways, I bring this up as I remind myself that we will need to get behind each other after Saturday. That means no crying if your candidate loses and swearing off the party. The same enthusiasm we all have now as the primary election nears needs to be carried to November. Oh, and I will take the game face off Saturday night to be a helluva lot more social. I mean, we are GOP’ers who have many things in common than we have differences.
Well put, Dirk.
I’m still in the dark about how the election results are going to be announced. Does anyone know how it will work?
Dirk is Joe Graziano. Everybody on this blog has known that for a long time. He is simply using an IP masking program that is available on the internet for free.
You know Kelly, if you are a gal, we should meet. I am sure we would have great debates have more in common than you care to admit.
By the way, my IP address is known and the V V editors know that it isn’t coming from Stafford.
Joe “Dirk” Graziano,
Please come see me for a free consultation. I only want to help you.
You didn’t submit that question and we both know it.
You have a problem with the truth and it should be addressed.
You go in and out of your third person persona very transparently and it is a dangerous warming sign to anyone with training to easily recognize.
Why not get on the telephone with your ‘friend’ Joe Graziano and have him post a message at the identical time that you do from “your house” and let’s let the blog manager tell us that you have different computers then? He can compare the Internet Protocol numbers and locations against previous messages I’m sure.
Or you can simply ‘come clean’ with your true identity and fess up to the hostility issues you are harboring. It will come out anyway after the election, and your credibility is a fair issue to be openly debated and questioned by your constituents as I’m certain you will win this trivial primary.
The other candidates are beneath you Joe, and you owe it to yourself to be who you are in the open.
Help is here if you only ask for it.
I just hate to keep piling it on Joe Graziano, but seriously, the guy has NO BUSINESS being in a Senate race when he can’t even spell the names of two districts he’s trying to represent, FAUQUIER and FREDERICKSBURG, correctly on his own website!! I’m sure Joe will correct the misspellings right away now that someone has pointed them out to him. He tends to react that way. Someone mentioned on one of these blogs that they liked how Myers included actual information – the date of the primary – on his signs. Next thing you know, Joe’s smacking little red stickers on his signs so that they also include the date of the primary. What a blatant copy-cat move, Joe. So unoriginal. And such a waste of money.
Oh, and to save you a trip to Graziano’s website, he thinks Fauquier is spelled “Faquier” and that Fredericksburg is spelled “Fredricksburg.”
Joe Graziano is my neighbor. The guy is really wacked. He speaks to me referring to himself in the third person like a football star would on an ego trip. He really thinks he’s a neat cool guy, but he couldn’t be any dorkier. His wife is nice, but she’s not running for office. I’d probably vote for her, but knowing he comes with the deal would assure I’d vote out of the party most likely. He has run for like every office we have on the HOA but no body votes for him. It’s sad kind of. I don’t think he’s a ‘bad’ person, but I thought the public should know at least one of his neighbors doesn’t trust him enough to loan him a lawnmower. I’d give the guy about 50 votes in the whole county since we have some other New Yorkers around that probably like gold chains and disco balls still, but besides that, it’s still a southern town. Grazmeister is not to be taken seriously unless you’re having a barbeque, then he’s all like “Hey I’m invited right?” and will eat you out of house and home. I think John Vanhoy is pretty cool as a person cause he used to be the GOP leader for a long time and knows alot about the county stuff but I don’t know what he knows outside the county. I never met Jon Myers, but I like his campain style and campaign balls. The guy has balls man to take on Chichester’s money machine and I like that about a no-name contender who kicks ass and takes names right out of the gate. But if you want a weirdo vote for Joe Graziano- he’s out in space like Apollo 13.