First an amusing side note. Ben Lanka stayed up until 3:00 this morning, scurrying around to get a story out after we beat him by 7 hours. He even found his way to steal our lead-in.
AWB lead-in:
Over the next week, we’ll be digesting local campaign finance reports. We’re starting off the with the examination of Mayor King Tom Henry’s report for 2009.
Contributors to Henry’s campaign war chest reads like a “Who’s Who of Engineers, Lawyers and Consultants.”
Figures, eh? Lanka must be using the Pat White show-prep playbook.
Today we’re picking up with the letter “L,” and an employee at Malcolm Pirnie. In yesterday’s report, we found a total of $3500 from five of their employees had been ransomed by the King from MP staffers. Malcolm Pirnie is an environmental firm that has big hopes on the CSO project in Fort Wayne.
Scott MacFabe works for Malcolm Pirnie at their Schaumburg, Illinois location. This makes 6 MP locations that have donated to the King. Scott gave his majesty $500. And yet another employee from another location was Michael Macphee from their Denver, CO office. He gave $500 as well. That makes 7 locations. Spread it around boys.
George Maseeh works for Malcolm Pirnie in White Plains, NY and gave $250. We’re up to eight locations now. Wow. Two other White Plains staffers, Gregory Matthews and Richard Pope gave $500 each. Stephen McGowan works at the Chicago location and gave $500. And from Birmingham, AL W. Scott Phillips pitched in $500 for the Henry relief campaign. And from their Elkridge, MD facility Heather Polinsky gave $500.
I lost count. That’s almost $7000. Ten locations that care about our mayor. Isn’t pay-to-play an amazing thing?
Bradley Meyer works for HMB Professional Engineers in Frankfort, KY. One of their specialties is wastewater. He contributed $500.
Thomas Mignery works for Burgess & Niple Ltd. yesterday we found that one Patricia Doody had given $200. Thomas added another $200. Mignery and Doody’s firm specialize in, well, doody. LMAO, really, it’s true.
Owen D. Jr. Morgan is a Vice President at Dlz Indiana, and yesterday our tally for DLZ was 5250 from two of their employees. Good old boy Owen added another $1000, bring the DLZ total to $6250, yikes!
Joseph Mrak is a Senior Vice President at the consulting engineering firm of RQAW Corporation in Indianapolis. Joe gave Henry $1000.
Yesterday’s total for municipal and industrial wastewater engineering firm Donohue & Associates in Indianapolis was $2,250. Today we add an additional $1250 from Edward Nevers, who is with Donohue in Wisconsin.
This one has us baffled, and frankly, we got tired of digging for more information on her. Martha O’Connor gave Henry $8000 last year. Best we can tell, she’s a hospital administrator in Indianapolis and a big-time dem. Dunno. Anyone?
Then we have Sanjay Patel. Yup, there’s a million of them, (looky here). We nailed this guy down fairly easily. He’s an engineer. You’re fscking kidding me?? Yes, at V.S. Engineering, Inc in Indianapolis.
Seriously. As I do the research on this, I get a bit nauseated. Sure, there are a few contributors from Fort Wayne, but in when you look at the entire picture the engineers, lawyers and crap specialist make them pale by comparison.
James Perron works for Bruce Carter Associates, L.L.C in Indianapolis, yet another environmental firm. He gave Henry chump change in the amount of $300.
Okay, we made it through the alphabet “P” today on individual contributions, which by the way totaled over $150,000.
We’ll pickup again tomorrow.
If you find this article informative? Consider donating any amount you choose.
Related posts:
- Two Carts Before Two Horses The Fraternal Order of Police contract came...
Entries (RSS)
Wow. Very good, Dan. Thank you SO much.
A side note.. Benji's story didn't exactly go into detail, now did it? Maybe he could do an internship and learn something from you. Ha!
Thank you for the analysis we have come to depend on.
Thanks. It's quite the task, but since I'm the self-anointed "king" of Google research it's really only about time, not resources. I'll get up around 5 a.m. tomorrow and start again.
Dan:
Someone once said that "Imitation was the most sincere form of flattery".
Nice to be admired…ain't it?
Good work, Boss!
Thank you for the research. Your commitment and hard work is appreciated. Please keep following the money. It tells the story in the end.
Geez. Who would have thought those good citizens of Wisconsin, Indianapolis, Chicago, DC and elsewhere were so deeply interested in the well-being of Fort Wayne. We should probably look at the contracts that have been let in the past two years to make a few more connections.
pay for play ordinance? Tom's got a 650K war chest that this ordinane wouldn't apply to.
the horse is out of the barn folks.
While "this" horse may be out of the barn, others will be prevented from doing this in the future. When we talk about a mayoral legacy, Mayor Tom will remembered as the poster boy for this type of legislation.