Robin’s Roundup: Lisa’s lavish lifestyle and more
POSTED 19 June 2023
Millionaire Mayor?
Lisa Brown posted on her campaign news section that she took, “A break from the campaign trail to be a Joni fan for a few hours!” I’m a little jealous and hope she had fun. Tickets for the “Joni [Mitchell] Jam” concert at The Gorge Amphitheater were estimated as high as thousands. Lisa can afford it - as government work has been good to her. Earlier this year Lisa filed her personal financial statement with the PDC, reporting living in a million dollar-plus valued condo and having amassed over a million in government pension funds. Coming in future roundups = Lisa’s taxpayer funded European vacation.
Really? Shawn Vestal.
His editorial this past Sunday attempted to help Daniel Walters’ weak-tea attempt to expose some kind of GOP cabal in Spokane. Vestal summed up with, “Still, the extent of Team Cathy’s involvement in local politics is unusual even in that context, both in the degree of involvement and the efforts to keep it out of sight.”
Vestal is so detached and delusional that in his mind the whistleblowers are wrong for exposing Ben Stuckart helping his hands to $150,000 of Julie Garcia proposed grift.
Lisa Likes to Spend.
As mentioned above, Lisa is good at spending money. As of the latest PDC campaign finance reports, Lisa Brown has raised $184,000. More interesting is that Brown has spent $102,514 in four months. Brown has just around $60,000 to spend in the primary election and is hemorrhaging about $18k per month in carrying cost. What hole is the Brown cash going down?
$10,000 to $5,000 per month consulting firm
$6,000 per month management ($5,500/month to Adam McDaniel, Ben Stuckart’s former chief of staff)
$2,100 per month office rent (no parking for volunteers)
$2,500 per month misc.
With $15k to $20k monthly carrying cost, the Brown campaign has barely enough funds available for another batch of yards signs and buttons. Where is all Lisa’s Seattle $? It’s beginning to show up - Stay Tuned.
Betsy’s “Big Burger.”
PDC complaints typically read like an insurance rider, however a recent complaint on Betsy Wilkerson’s freewheeling financial disclosures was described by the author as,
“In essence, Betsy Wilkerson’s fuzzy accounting demands that we believe that although she was gifted and gobbled down an entire $1,479 hamburger today, she insists that she is only going to digest 80% of that hamburger over the next three months (the primary). Then, she will go about the business of processing the 20% digestion deferral of Betsy’s Big Burger that she ate in April over the three months of the general (August through early November)”
For more on Betsy Wilkerson’s compliance conundrum, click here.