How did Candance Chow spend campaign funds in the fourth quarter?

By Local Labs News Service

Jan 7, 2018

Non partisan Candance Chow's election campaign committee, Friends of Candance Chow, spent $26,780 in the fourth quarter, according to committee expenditure records obtained from the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE).

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

< 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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