Kellogg Top Panhandle Fund-Raiser

Rep. Hilde Kellogg, R-Post Falls, has drawn on her support from business to raise significantly more money than any other North Idaho legislative candidate.

One week before the primary election, Kellogg’s Republican challenger, Jay Jump, has raised just $50.

Kellogg has racked up $5,300 in contributions since Jan. 1, plus $2,064 carried over from last year. Her top contributors in 1996 included the Idaho Truck PAC, $750; Timber-PAC, $500; Idaho Committee on Hospitality and Sports, $500; and Energy Associates, the Washington Water Power Employees PAC, $500. Mining companies, bankers, J.R. Simplot Co., manufacturers, US West and the Idaho Cable Television Association also gave to Kellogg.

Her campaign finance report contrasted sharply with many North Idaho legislative candidates, who raised little or no money.

Seven failed to file their campaign finance reports by Tuesday’s deadline, and could face fines of up to $50 per day. They included four incumbents: Sens. Clyde Boatright, R-Rathdrum, and Mary Lou Reed, D-Coeur d’Alene; and Reps. Jeff Alltus, R-Coeur d’Alene, and Marv Vandenberg, D-Coeur d’Alene.

Among those who filed on time, the second-biggest fund-raiser was Shawn Keough, a Republican running in a two-way primary for a chance to challenge Sen. Tim Tucker, D-Porthill.

Keough is the timber information specialist at the Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce. Much of her money came from the timber industry.

Keough reported $4,926 in contributions, including $1,000 each from Timber-PAC and Idaho Forest Industries in Coeur d’Alene. She also received $200 from Idaho Forest Industries in Priest River; $400 from Crown Pacific; $500 each from the Leonard Malloy and Patrick Malloy families of Post Falls; and $250 each from two business PACs, Friends for Idaho Business and Energy Associates.

Gene Brown, who will face Keough in the primary, raised $893, more than $300 of it his own money.

Tucker raised $1,650, including a $1,000 contribution from the PAC for Education, and smaller donations from Anheuser Busch, $250; WWP/ Energy Associates, $300; and Idaho Sugarbeet Growers PAC, $100.

His primary opponent, Ed Worzala, reported raising a negative $195.

Democrat Larry Watson, who is running against Rep. Tom Dorr, R-Post Falls, raised $3,775, in part by loaning his campaign $3,000 of his own money. Watson also received $100 from Duane Little of Kellogg; $100 from Mary Lou Reed; $250 from Monte Danner of Hayden Lake; $100 each from Doug Siddoway and Gary Waters; and $100 from the House Democrats.

He spent $2,500 on materials for signs, handouts and mailings.

Dorr reported no contributions or expenditures since January, and $787 in the bank. Both Dorr and Watson are unopposed in the primary.

Tom Daugherty, one of two Republicans challenging Boatright for the District 2 Senate seat, reported raising $4,040, with $4,000 of it in the form of a loan from himself to his campaign. Ian James, the third Republican in the race, also used mostly his own money to raise $1,840 in campaign funds.

Larry Kenck of Post Falls, the Democrat who will face the winner of the three-way primary in the fall, pulled in $2,189 in contributions, including a $1,000 boost from the Iron Workers District Council. He spent $1,265 on yard signs.

In the District 3 race for the chance to challenge Vandenberg, Jim Clark of Hayden Lake raised $4,613, with just over $3,000 coming from his own funds. His contributors included Hecla Mining Co., $200; Parados Investment Inc., $250; the Idaho Committee on Hospitality and Sports, $200; and Crown Pacific, $100.

Clark’s primary opponent, Curtis Ellis of Coeur d’Alene, reported putting in $731 of his own money.

Sen. Gordon Crow, R-Hayden, received a $960 contribution from the Idaho Republican Party, along with $400 from the Idaho Medical PAC, $250 from ASARCO and $100 from H.W. Robertson of Coeur d’Alene. Crow is unopposed in the primary; his Democrat challenger, D.E. “Sam” Sears of Coeur d’Alene, reported no fund-raising.

, DataTimes MEMO: This sidebar appeared with the story: TOP GIVERS Here are the top contributors to North Idaho legislative campaigns, according to campaign finance reports filed Tuesday, along with their total contributions and the candidates who received them: Timber-PAC, $1,500, to Shawn Keough and Rep. Hilde Kellogg Friends for Idaho Business, $1,500, to Keough, Kellogg, Sen. Marguerite McLaughlin and Rep. Chuck Cuddy Idaho Medical PAC, $1,200, to Sen. Gordon Crow, Jack Riggs, Rep. June Judd and McLaughlin. Energy Associates (WWP), $1,050, to Keough, Sen. Tim Tucker, and Kellogg. Other big givers: Idaho Forest Industries ($1,200 to Keough), J.R. Simplot Co. ($750 to McLaughlin and Kellogg), ASARCO ($750 to Crow, Meyer and Kellogg), Committee on Hospitality and Sports ($700 to Clark and Kellogg). Figures do not include the seven candidates who missed Tuesday’s filing deadline; 28 candidates filed reports.