Chow's committee spent the most on consulting in the quarter, with all those payments ($5,500) going to Deep Blue Strategies LLC in Wilmette. Table 1 below shows the distribution of how Chow's committee spent its money in the fourth quarter.
Table 1: Fourth-quarter spending by purpose
Purpose
Amount
Percent of total spending
Consulting
$5,500
20.5%
Campaign staff
$5,250
19.6%
Campaign work
$4,000
14.9%
Field work - polling
$3,000
11.2%
Site build; setup fee and logo; mothly licensing fee
$2,300
8.6%
Field work - polling fees
$2,000
7.5%
Producing 3 campaign advertisements
$1,550
5.8%
Website monthly fee
$900
3.4%
Access to votebuilder
$750
2.8%
Printing of 5000 walking cards
$660
2.5%
Supplies - donation envelopes
$345
1.3%
Act blue fees
$291
1.1%
Office supplies
$122
0.5%
Act blue fee
$57
0.2%
Actblue fees
$30
0.1%
Actblue fee
$19
< 0.1%
Monthly membership to whitepages
$4
< 0.1%
Table 2 below shows the top 25 largest single expenditures during the quarter.
Table 2: Largest expenses of the fourth quarter
Recipient
Date
Amount
Purpose
Gabriel Frankel
2017-11-27
$3,500
Campaign staff
Deep Blue Strategies LLC
2017-11-24
$3,000
Field work - polling
the 80 Group
2017-10-01
$2,300
Site build; setup fee and logo; mothly licensing fee
Deep Blue Strategies LLC
2017-10-20
$2,000
Consulting
Deep Blue Strategies LLC
2017-11-24
$2,000
Consulting
Deep Blue Strategies LLC
2017-12-20
$2,000
Field work - polling fees
KOS Group Inc
2017-11-12
$2,000
Campaign work
KOS Group Inc
2017-12-11
$2,000
Campaign work
Gabriel Frankel
2017-12-15
$1,750
Campaign staff
Lucid Creative Agency
2017-12-06
$1,550
Producing 3 campaign advertisements
Deep Blue Strategies LLC
2017-10-01
$1,500
Consulting
Democratic Party of Illinois
2017-10-01
$750
Access to votebuilder
Chi-Town Printing Inc
2017-10-01
$660
Printing of 5000 walking cards
the 80 Group
2017-11-14
$600
Website monthly fee
Chi-Town Printing Inc
2017-11-27
$345
Supplies - donation envelopes
the 80 Group
2017-12-11
$300
Website monthly fee
Gabriel Frankel
2017-12-15
$122
Office supplies
ActBlue
2017-12-22
$39
Act blue fees
ActBlue
2017-12-18
$39
Act blue fees
ActBlue
2017-12-18
$35
Act blue fees
ActBlue
2017-12-14
$19
Act blue fees
ActBlue
2017-11-20
$19
Act blue fee
ActBlue
2017-12-22
$19
Act blue fees
ActBlue
2017-12-18
$19
Act blue fees
ActBlue
2017-12-18
$13
Act blue fees
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