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Today’s Deseret News has a piece on Candidates Spending.

Sometimes candidates do unusual things with the hard-earned donations that they often say are needed desperately to get out their message.
That includes paying for the candidate’s cable TV at home.
Or for hiring the candidate’s relatives.
Or paying to fix the candidate’s car.
Or buying gifts. Or a lot of food.
Or even for giving large chunks of money away to others.
Utah candidates for Congress have done all of that and more this election cycle, according to disclosure forms. Such spending comes as some candidates try to economize even by declaring that paid workers are contractors to avoid payroll taxes.

You can see financial disclosures at these sites:

I just completed the 2006 League of Women Voters Online Candidate Questionnaire. Here are the questions and my answers (I kept my answers as brief as possible):

Candidate Background Information:
Occupation:
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Earlier today I wrote about my experience filing for office and promised an update and a surprise. Here is the update for the Desert Greens 2006 slate of candidates:

Julian Hatch filed today for U.S. Senate. Running in that race are also Pete Ashdown (D), Scott N. Bradley (Constitution), Orrin G. Hatch (R), Brian E. Jenkins (R), Joseph Labonte (Personal Choice), Roger I. Price (Personal Choice), Michael T. Ridgway (R), and Dave Starr Seely (Libertarian).

Chuck Tripp file for County Council at Large (C). Running in that race are also Don W. Johnstun (Libertarian), Jimmy L. Cadman (Personal Choice), Jim Bradley (D), Janice Auger (R),

In the Salt Lake County Council Race that I am running in (District #5)these people are also running:
Nate Hendricks (D), Russell A. Cannon (R), Cortlund G. Ashton (R), and Jeff Allen (R).

In the race for State House Distrcit #43 (Tom King), these people are also running:
Wayne A. Harper (R), Mark Faux (Constitution).

Now for the surpise:

Kathy Dopp will be running of Summit County Clerk. Also running are Susan Follett (D) and Cindy LoPiccolo (D), which means after the primary, there will be a Democract and a Desert Green.

Kathy Dopp is nationally known for her work on the Investigation pf the Accuracy of Elections, with regards to Diebold, and has the website,
Utah Counts Votes. She wants to attempt to win the Summit County Clerk seat so that she can prove the inaccuracy of the Diebold Voting Equipment. This would quite a victory for voters and for Greens.

Go Green! More updates in a couple of days.