8-Day Campaign Finance Reports for RISD

Candidates for Richardson ISD Board of Trustees have filed 8-Day Campaign Finance Reports. Here are the totals for the 30-Day Reports and the 8-Day Reports, ranked by the combined totals.

Total Political Contributions

Eric Eager	Place 6	$2,484.14	$1,886.09
Debbie Renteria	District 3	$2,226.43	$1,943.40
Blake Sawyer	Place 6	$1,967.37	$573.00
Bonnie Abadie	District 3	$1,205.00	$650.00

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There was no change in the pattern in the last month. The two incumbents who led in the first reports (Eager and Renteria) also lead in the second reports. The totals are tiny compared to a year ago, when one candidate alone (Sherry Clemens) had raised more that all four candidates combined this year. All in all, it's a quiet election in the RISD this time around.

Let's look at the sources of the money the candidates did raise.

Debbie Renteria received $104.15 from Catalina E. Garcia, MD, Trustee of Dallas College District 1. Curiously, Garcia lists her occupation as "unemployed," meaning I guess that she no longer practices medicine and doesn't consider being on the Board of Trustees of Dallas College, whose members serve without compensation, to be employment.

Bonnie Abadie received $100.00 from Randy Blankenship, a regular public speaker at RISD board meetings. She also received $100.00 from Richardson Republican Women. This is where I am required to insert my old wish that party politics would stay out of local, non-partisan elections. Sigh.

Eric Eager received $100.00 from Carolyn Bukhair, former superintendent of RISD who is so revered in RISD that they named a school after her.

Blake Sawyer received $500.00 from Chance Fletcher, Maintenance Director at Watermark Community Church. There's nothing remarkable about that, I guess. It was just a fairly big contribution for RISD races this year.