Friday, April 13, 2007

Campaign money

Gov Otter has appointed Royce Chigbrow to replace one of the Idaho Tax Commissioners, per the Statesman. Chigbrow ran for Controller in the 2006, losing to Donna Jones.

In 04, Chigbrow was Sec of State Ben Ysursa's campaign treasurer. (Interestingly, in '03, Ysursa was then Sec of State Pete Cenerrusa's treasurer.) A Cordell Chigbrow was Otter's treasurer in the '06 Gov election. Don't know if they're related, but with an unusual last name, it's likely.

Another interesting tidbit; Delores Crow chose not to run for reelection, and shut down her campaign. She spent most of her remaining campaign cash by donating to other Rs, but she also donated $350 to the Brethren Church Africa Mission, and $350 to the Crossroads Community Church. I guess that's lawful, but it kind of surprises me; campaign donations rolled over and donated to religious institutions. Not much separation of church and state there.


Update; Changed Jana to Donna. Thanks to Tara for the tip.

2 comments:

Tara A. Rowe said...

Donna Jones, not Jana.

Anonymous said...

Royce and Cord are father and son; Cord was a freshman when I was a senior at Albertson and lived two doors down from me on the Island.