Back to Those 30-Day Reports ...

Worth checking the comments on Martha's post about the 30-day finance reports being filed by City candidates.

Among the highlights ...

It looks like Mr Bradford is considering people putting signs up in their yard or on their property as in-kind contributions too.

That's bizarre.

They're 4x4 signs but at different rates for different people, $800 for one, $1000 for one, $400???

This stinks of someone trying to puff up their report to make themselves look good.

And some more issues with Bradford's report, combined with a few others ...

Follow the money to see the slate.

Bradford campaign donates to Daveta Daniels (AL 5 candidate) Daniels donates to Bradford campaign.

Dexter Handy (Dist G Candidate) donates to Bradford. Bradford donates to Handy.

Andrew Burks (AL 2 Candidate) donates to Bradford.

And this from some of the District F candidates ...

Khalid Khan filed by paper , which is allowed if you sign an affidavit that you will not collect or spend more than 20k, but he has collected 34k, lol Also he doesn't list any printing or direct mailing expenses at all, he has done 6 mailing pieces and a telephone poll. oh, he has he filing dates totally screwed up, take a look, they don't match his campaign treasurer appt and it goes until oct 24th.

Al Hoang has expenditures at over 8k but on his itemized form of spending has only 3400 +/-

Khan is sending out numerous mail peices, using one of the most expensive mail shops in town. The pieces have already been dropped, so it's not likely that they would slip through a loophole on the timing of the buy (as Gene Locke's TV buy did ... legitimately, however)

In Bradford's case, he probably raised around $40k in actual cash in a period when he's claiming to have raised over $100k.. No idea why they felt the need to puff up the report with a lot of bogus in-kind contributions. The bigger question for Bradford, however, is going to be the number of people contributing over the legal limit.