Green spends $478,000 to win

Republican Mike Green spent $478,652.82 to win the 31st District state senate seat.

Green defeated Democrat Jeff Mayes in the November General Election. The senate district includes Sanilac County.

Green spent a total of $88,900.28 in cash and $389,752.54 in in-kind contributions on his campaign. In-kind contributions are contributions of services and goods.

The post-general election finance report was due Dec. 2, for the reporting period Oct. 18 through Nov. 22. These figures come from the Michigan Secretary of State Web site.

Republican Mike Green

The bulk of Green’s expenditures were in the form of a loan ($392,052.32) from the the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, $388,369 for media advertising and $13,683 for production costs. The Kahn Leadership Fund, (Senator Roger Kahn) loaned Green’s campaign a total of $8,125.54. Various reports list in-kind loans of $663.26 for food for fundraisers, $100 for a site, $86.28 for invitations and $176 for stamps, according to Green’s report. The other in-kind contribution explantions were not reported.

A large amount of the $148,967.79 total in cash contributions came from political action committees. In the last few weeks before the election, Green received these sums from fellow Republicans: PappaGeorge Leadership Fund (Senator John PappaGeorge of Troy) $10,000; Richardson Leadership Fund (Senator Randy Richardson of Monroe) $5,000; Bouchard Victory Fund (Mike Bouchard, unsuccessful candidate for governor) $250; Fund for a Republican Majority (Senator Mike Nofs) $3,000; and The Great Southwest Fund (association of state representatives) $5,000.

Other action committee contributions at the end of the campaign included: Schostak Family (commericial development firm, one of whom was running for state Republican committee chairman) $1,000; Eli Lilly and Co. (global pharmaceutical) $500; MI for Rural Electrification $600; Friends of Housing (MI Association of Home Builders) $500; Michigan Petroleum $100; MI Equine Partnership $ 100; MAIA (MI Advertising Industrial Alliance) $250; MI Retailers Association $100; Friends of EMU $100; and Great Lakes Education Project (school reform for freedom and choice) $1,000.

Democrat Jeff Mayes

Mayes spent a total of $314,320.80, including $67,448.36 during the last weeks before the November election. Mayes took in a total of $317,348.91 in contributions, $37,013.70 at the end of the campaign. Political action committees contributed a total of $98,700 to his effort, $34,050 during the last weeks.

STATE REPRESENTATIVE Republican Paul

Muxlow

Muxlow spent a total of $134,375.86 during his winning campaign for the 83rd District State Representative term over Democrat Alan Lewandowski.

Muxlow took in $135,207 in contributions, and spent $11,967.57 in the last couple weeks before the election.

In the weeks before the November election, the representative elect received $4,800 in contributions from a variety of political action committees, including the following from fellow republicans: Stamas Leadership $250; (Rep. Jim Stamas of Midland); Genetski for Conservative Majority (Rep. Robert Genetski of Saugatuck) $100; and Bolger Restore MI Fund (Rep. Jase Bolger of Marshall $500.

Other political action committee contributions at the end of the campaign came from: Michigan Allstate Insurance $500; Michigan Society of Professional Engineers $125; MI Action Committee for Rural Electrification $500; National Association of Theater Owners $250; School Administrators $500; Troopers $250; Consulting Engineers Council $250; MI Assisted Living Association $250; and Friends of Saginaw Valley State University $200.

The Paul Muxlow for State Representative Committee still owes him $154,398.46, much of which is debt from previous campaigns for representative.

Democrat

Alan Lewandowski

Lewandowski spent a total of $12,036.73 on his campaign, $7,628 of it during the end of the campaign. He took in $12,870.90 in contributions, $2,000 of which came in during the final weeks of the campaign. Political action committees contributed $1,700 to his campaign during that period,

County Board of Commissioners Republican John

Merriman

Merriman was the only commissioner candidate to file because he spent over $1,000 on his campaign.

He spent $1,564.31. The Sanilac County Republican Committee contributed $250, and Merriman contributed the rest himself in his successful bid for re-election in District 1.