Bob Ries — 2014 U.S. Representative, District 5 campaign
2014 U.S. Representative, District 5 · totals since Jan 1, 2013
Final This campaign’s election cycle is closed — no further reports for it are due, so these totals are settled rather than mid-race. They cover every filing we hold for the campaign; if the source archive later adds one, we load it. Full definition → · 11 filings · Q1 2013–YE 2014
Who funds this campaign The sources split breaks down the receipts the headline adds up, by the lines of each report behind it; its parts add up to the headline. Open its “Why this number?” for each report’s lines. Gift-size and location figures cover itemized contributions only. Aggregates count everyone who gave, including donors below the $200 disclosure floor — a share across all donors identifies no one. Full definition →
23% of this campaign’s individual contributions came as small unitemized donations — gifts under the federal itemization threshold (about $200 a cycle) that the filer reports only as a lump sum, never broken out by donor. The gift-size and location breakdowns below cover the itemized 77%.
Largest part: loans (line 13), 54% of receipts on these reports.
Where the money comes from Shares of itemized dollars, by the contributor’s state and city as filed. A city is named only when at least 5 donors gave from it or it holds at least 5% of the located dollars; everyone else is grouped into “elsewhere.” Shown only when at least 80% of dollars carry a usable state. Full definition →
100% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (0% from out of state).
- Nashville $18K66%
- Brentwood $5K20%
- Franklin $3K9%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $1K
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Jun 2013 – Dec 2014. Peak $12,150 in Sep 2014. Spending peaked at $40,000 in Nov 2014.
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 24 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 5 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $600 and their names are withheld.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Joey Jacobs | 1 | $5,200.00 |
| Lee Beaman | 1 | $2,600.00 |
| Deborah Jacobs | 1 | $2,600.00 |
| Bill Hemrick | 1 | $2,600.00 |
| Mike Powell | 1 | $2,600.00 |
| David Wright Photography In-Kind ↺ paid $2,600.00 | 1 | $2,600.00 |
| Stacy Snyder | 2 | $2,100.00 |
| Joe Scarlett | 1 | $2,000.00 |
| Ed Smith | 3 | $1,550.00 |
| Larry Maxwell | 1 | $1,000.00 |
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Coverage: we hold 91% of the itemized contributions this committee reported to the FEC for the 2014 cycle — about $2,600 is not in the FEC bulk file we load.
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ries, Bob ↺ donor $554.12 | 1 | $40,000.00 | |
| Southern Hoosier Ent. | 13 | $13,765.40 | |
| Tennessee Republican Party | 1 | $8,178.90 | |
| WQZQ 102.5 Radio | 2 | $4,200.00 | |
| WQQK Radio | 2 | $3,000.00 | |
| Bott Radio Network | 2 | $2,772.00 | |
| David Wright Photography ↺ donor $2,600.00 ⇄ in-kind (given, not paid) | 1 | $2,600.00 | |
| Graphic Screenprinting | 1 | $1,477.97 | |
| Graphic Screenprinting Custom Sign/Banner | 1 | $1,477.97 | |
| Terry's Tees | 2 | $1,350.33 | |
| Denham, James | 2 | $1,200.00 | |
| Hippie Radio, Kensington Digital Media | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Executive Dinners | 1 | $575.35 | |
| Hippie Radio, Kensington Digital M | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Davidson County Republican Party | 1 | $500.00 | |
| WQSV Am 70 | 1 | $375.00 | |
| WQSC Radio | 1 | $300.00 | |
| Nashville First Tuesday | 1 | $250.00 | |
| Fundraising By Net, LLC | 1 | $7.76 |
| Payee | Location | Purpose | Amount | Date |
|---|
Where the money went Each expenditure carries a short description of what it was for, written by the campaign. We sort those descriptions into a fixed set of categories; one expenditure goes in one category, so the amounts add up to Bob Ries’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Loan & debt repayment $40,000 48%
- Advertising & media $21,857 26%
- Printing & mail $15,565 19%
- Contributions & donations $2,600 3%
- Other $1,896 2%
- Field & voter contact $1,030 1%
- Fundraising & events $575 0.7%
- Office & operations $8 0.1%
Filing History
Totals as filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC); see About for how this data is processed.
| Filing | Cash Beginning | Cash Ending | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| YE 2014 | -$205.73 | -$805.73 | Source: YE 2014 filing |
| 30G 2014 | $49,713.87 | -$205.73 | Source: 30G 2014 filing |
| 12G 2014 | $56,749.16 | $49,713.87 | Source: 12G 2014 filing |
| Q3 2014 | $41,913.96 | $56,749.16 | Source: Q3 2014 filing |
| 12P 2014 | $45,797.31 | $41,913.96 | Source: 12P 2014 filing |
| Q2 2014 | $3,232.67 | $45,797.31 | Source: Q2 2014 filing |
| Q1 2014 | $3,768.94 | $3,232.67 | Source: Q1 2014 filing |
| YE 2013 | $5,171.00 | $4,321.48 | Source: YE 2013 filing |
| Q3 2013 | $47.00 | $5,171.48 | Source: Q3 2013 filing |
| Q2 2013 | $47.00 | $47.00 | Source: Q2 2013 filing |
| Q1 2013 | $47.00 | $47.97 | Source: Q1 2013 filing |