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What it did for the Seafood Festival!!

The first thing to understand about the state’s D-1 election form is that the primary and general are considered two completely different elections.  Now if you you receive any donations prior to primary day, those are considered as being for the primary.  You can’t raise funds during primary season for the general election.  The D-1 must be filed for the primary designating a treasurer and campaign depository for the primary.

Now after primary day, any funds you collected during the primary season that weren’t spent during the primary can be used for the general.  The D-1 for the general must be filed within 10 days after any money comes to the general election campaign.  So if you have no money after primary day, either because you spent it all or because you never raised any, the D-1 would be due within 10 days after receiving your first donation towards the general.  If your campaign account had funds in it that were collected before primary day, and are to be used now for the general instead, the D-1 would be due within 10 days after primary day because the day after the primary those funds are considered to have been moved to the general election fund.

For our 2015 council race both the Democratic candidate, Jennifer Nicolay, and the Republican candidate, Thomas Burke, filed their D-1s for the primary so that’s good.  And for the general, Ms. Nicolay filed her D-1 on August 24.  (You’ve already seen that one…it’s the one with the signatures that don’t match the 2012 D-1.)  She was able to wait until August because she didn’t receive any donations during the primary season so there was nothing to carry over.  I presume her first donation towards the general was probably in mid August.

Now if you look at Mr. Burke’s C-1 form you can see he raised money before primary day.  I can only assume he spent every penny of it before primary day and on primary day had a balance of $0 in his campaign depository.  I also assume that since primary day there has been no activity in his campaign account.  This is because he has yet to file a D-1 with the state for the general election.

Either that or he messed up again.

Click on the video.  Find out how to pronounce Joaquin……and more!  (They probably at least got Joaquin’s name right.)

Took pooch for a walk around the lake just now and stopped for a rest at the inn.  The Monarch Butterfly Inn that is.  It’s really beautiful, hats off to the volunteers who created it.

There’s one of the buggers.

This is where we sat.

Very nice!

But creates a new one.

More than once, including in yesterday’s comments, I’ve asked why Krista Sperber would have made a contribution to the Democrats’ campaign nearly two months after the election.

Ms. Sperber was kind enough to send me a photo of the cancelled check:

Which begs the question: why would a donation check given October 7th (or is it 9th?) not be deposited until December 2nd and then reported to the state as having been made December 18th?  I don’t have time to search NJ ELEC’s candidate handbook right now but I’m certain it’s some sort of violation.

Anyway, thank you Krista for clearing that up.

*Update:

Here is the text of the candidates’ handbook saying when contributions must be recorded.  It must be within 10 days.On top of that, it was deposited December 2 but the report says it was December 18.

These two letters were both delivered yesterday, the first to residents of Rhode Island Point (for some reason 18 days after it was written), the second came certified to the mayor from the newly-formed Maclearie Park Neighborhood Association.

First of all, is this man capable of writing a letter that doesn’t contain an attack some portion of his constituents?  Secondly, why did only Rhode Island Point addresses get the letter?  Does no one else in Belmar have an interest in Maclearie Park?

Here is what is on the flip side:

And here is the letter that went to the mayor with 23 signatures attached:I don’t have time to expand on this; I have to get to work.  I will have more when I have some time.

Of course my commenters usually have more interesting things to say than I do anyway so it’ll be good to hear from you guys about all this.

Click on it to go to the page.

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And from the state DOT maritime resources page:

Everything you’d rather not know about muck

(Click on it to download a power point presentation) (Gee, I thought I was the top muckraker in the area.)

I know that surveys like this one can be highly subjective, and I know that we’re a small town with big summer crowds that skew the “per capita” figures, but still…..tied for 1st?

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As the Keefes and Robertses prepare to move to the new “Home by Summer” house in Belmar, the condo owned by Teresa Keefe’s brother…where the family fled to after Sandy…is apparently on its way to foreclosure:

So is this really the best time to be buying a Cadillac?