July 16, 2009
Campaign Finance Reports Now Online
The nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project has posted the campaign finance reports due today.
These reports provide a look at fundraising by candidates for the House of Delegates and three statewide offices between May 28 and June 30.
Same Day Disclosures
The link above provides an A-Z list of candidates whose reports are available. Select a candidate, and you can see how much he/she raise during the period and sort donations by name, date and amount.
Below are links to the reports for the major party candidates for statewide office:
Deeds for Governor (Raised $3.4 million during period.)
McDonnell for Governor (Raised $1.8 million during period)
Bolling for Lt. Governor (Raised $366,141 during period)
Wagner for Lt. Governor (Raised $231,661 during period)
Cuccinelli for Attorney General (Raised $291,704 during period)
Shannon for Attorney General (Raised $284,733 during period)
VPAP staff is working to integrate 20,000+ transactions from these reports into its database. For now, the transactions contained in the June 1 reports will be visible only on a few pages on VPAP.org.
VPAP adds value to the campaign finance information, which makes it easier to sort a candidate's donations by donor name, occupation and ZIP Code and to provide a complete contribution history for each donor.
VPAP is expected to integrated the value-added information for statewide candidates throughout its website by Sunday. House candidates should be available by next Wednesday, July 22. Go to vpap.org for more information.
