County exec 2009 — it’s never too early

July

The July periodic campaign finance disclosure forms were due yesterday for any person or committee with an active account.

So while we focused primarily on this year’s candidates I took a peek at the statements of County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef and some of his rumored 2009 opponents.

Vanderhoef, a Republican now serving his fourth term in office, brought in more than $105,800 in contributions in the last six months—more than any of the people running for statewide office this year. He reported a balance of $166,577. 27 after opening with more than $131,200.

Much of his money came from corporate donations and several of his expenditures were on fundraisers.

Among the rumored challengers is Orangetown Town Supervisor Thom Kleiner, who’s getting really good at being charmingly coy when asked about the subject.

He raised nearly $41,000 this period, ending with a balance of $112,788.28. Ramapo Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence took in nearly $76,000 and Clarkstown Supervisor Alex Gromack took in nearly $61,500.

That’s big money in an off-year compared with Haverstraw Town Supervisor Howard Phillips who took in just more than $1,200 and Stony Point Supervisor Phil Marino who raised about half that.

All five supervisor seats, now filled by Democrats, are up next year as well.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 5:24 pm by Sarah Netter. Print | Email

One Response to “County exec 2009 — it’s never too early”

Robert I. Rhodes July 17th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Howard Philips must be an honest man.

Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence has been raking in the dough from Ramapo builders and the folks he does business with even before his first election.

In fact, he had a celebration after his first election in his town office with Ramapo’s most famous, or should I say, infamous builders. And he has done his best to make them even richer ever since.

The first piece of open space he has given away is the Suffern quarry. He is hard at work using our money to buy more land that he can give away in future years to his best buddies. What a guy!!!

Robert I. Rhodes, Chairman, Preserve Ramapo, http://www.PreserveRamapo.org

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