Abboud Reports $13,755 Available for Campaign as of July 1st; Paying Canvassers

I haven’t seen it anywhere else, so I decided to take a look at what the campaign finance figures were for the 16th congressional district.

You know, that’s the three-way race in which Democratic Party candidate Robert Abboud and Green Party candidate Scott Summers are challenging incumbent Republican Don Manzullo.

Come to find out, Abboud, from the rich enclave of Barrington Hills in the far southeastern corner of the district, had only $13,755 at the end of June. And, the committee owes $91,569.

The committee raised $40,796 during the last three months, but spent $91,324. That pretty much wiped out the April 1st beginning balance of $64,283.

Abboud has loaned his campaign $63,395.

I looked at what he is spending his campaign money on and found it interesting that he is paying Loves Park’s Marianna Anderson to canvas. And she's not the only one.

That pretty much means that Abboud has not found volunteers in the Rockford area willing to do the same work for free. She seems to be getting about $84 per day.

As I looked down the alphabetical list of expenditures, I found more Rockford canvassers:

Nicholas Brener, Ryan Denk, Dave Fernandez, Daniel Grams, Cole Hubbard, Dan Koteski, Jason Looney, Mike Olson, and Larry Standfield, although Fernandez appears to live in DeKalb now.

Abboud has also paid Chicago’s Nick Crnkovica and Kristen Trigg for canvassing.

From Crystal Lake, Eric Howanietz is being paid to canvas.

It’s interesting that the Abboud campaign treasurer did not know the addresses of a good number of the canvassers. For James Nicolos there is not even a home town.