Lee Sowers — 2006 Tennessee House, District 06 campaign
2006 Tennessee House, District 06
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 → · 5 filings · Pre-Primary 2006–Q4 2006
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Cash on hand is the amount reported on the filing listed below.
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The ending cash balance the campaign reported on its most recent filing (as filed, not computed).
- Q4 2006 Amendment $0 filing-stated
Raised (cash) adds together the amounts listed below.
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Sum of every cash receipt bucket: itemized contributions from others + the candidate's own contributions + loans + filer-stated unitemized + (federal) transfers and other receipts. Excludes the value of donated goods & services, shown separately as In-Kind Received.
| Itemized contributions from others | $5,975 |
| Candidate's own contributions | $18,663 |
| Unitemized contributions (filer-stated lump sum) | $223 |
| Raised (cash) | $24,860 |
- Q4 2006 Amendment $18,663 derived
- Q3 2006 Initial $150 derived
- Pre-Primary 2006 Initial $1,323 mixed
- Itemized contributions from others $1,100 derived
- Unitemized contributions (filer-stated lump sum) $223 filing-stated
- Q2 2006 Initial $3,025 derived
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- Q1 2006 Initial $1,700 derived
Total spent adds together the amounts listed below.
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Itemized expenditure rows plus the stated spending a filer reported as a lump sum without itemizing it.
| Itemized expenditures | $24,811 |
| Stated spending not itemized (credited) | $49 |
| Total spent | $24,860 |
- Q3 2006 Initial $1,253 derived
- Pre-Primary 2006 Initial $875 mixed
- Itemized expenditures $826 derived
- Stated spending not itemized (credited) $49 filing-stated
- Q2 2006 Initial $22,732 derived
Out-of-state share compares itemized money from outside tennessee with raised incl. in-kind.
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Itemized contributions from a state other than Tennessee, divided by everything the campaign raised (shown only when the state of most itemized money is known — above 99% coverage).
| From outside Tennessee | $0 |
Who funds this campaign The sources split breaks down everything the campaign raised: the candidate’s own money (including self-loans), individuals (including unitemized small gifts), organizations and PACs, and “other” (in-kind contributions, loans other than the candidate’s, and the like) — open its “Why this number?” for the full breakdown. 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 →
The candidate’s own money made up 74% of the campaign’s funds — individuals gave 23%, organizations and PACs 2%, with 1% from other sources.
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Share from the candidate compares from the candidate's own money with everything the campaign raised.
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Everything the campaign raised, split into the candidate's own money (own contributions plus self- and family loans), individuals, organizations and PACs, and everything else — loans other than the candidate's, in-kind contributions, and (for federal filers) committee transfers and other receipts. Unitemized small donations count as individual money. The parts add up to the total raised. The headline share is the candidate divided by the total.
| Candidate's own money (incl. self-loans) | $18,663 |
| From individuals | $5,698 |
| From organizations and PACs | $500 |
| In-kind contributions (goods & services) | $350 |
Gift size Each individual donor’s total giving to this campaign this cycle. Organizations, PACs, and the candidate’s own money are excluded (this is about people); a donor who gave under several name spellings is counted once. A donor named on the page can still sit in a small bucket — these are cycle totals, not “unnamed donors.” Full definition →
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Average gift per individual donor compares total from individual donors with individual donors.
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Every individual donor's total contributions to this campaign, divided by the number of individual donors. Organizations and PACs are excluded (this measures people); a donor who gave under several name spellings is counted once. The median and the gift-size buckets are computed over the same individual-donor totals. Based on itemized contributions only (loans and money a filer reported as an unitemized lump sum are not included).
| Total from individual donors | $5,475 |
| Median gift | $100 |
| Individual donors | 17 |
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).
- Germantown $1K17%
- Pine Flats $1K17%
- Piney Flats $1K17%
- Erwin $70012%
- Johnson City $5509%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $2K
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Out-of-state share of located dollars compares itemized money from outside tennessee with itemized money with a known state.
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Itemized contribution dollars from outside Tennessee, divided by all itemized dollars whose contributor state is known. 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-in-Tennessee and other-out-of-state. Shown only above 99% state coverage. Based on itemized contributions only (loans and money a filer reported as an unitemized lump sum are not included).
| From outside Tennessee | $0 |
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Feb 2006 – Jul 2006. Peak $2,200 in Jun 2006. Spending peaked at $16,174 in Jun 2006.
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names donors whose cumulative giving reached $200. Smaller donors contributed $825 total; their names are not disclosed here.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Lee Sowers Self | 1 | $18,662.59 |
| Doug Collins | 1 | $1,000.00 |
| Maynard Duty | 1 | $1,000.00 |
| Patricia Duty | 1 | $1,000.00 |
| Tennessee Realtors PAC | 1 | $500.00 |
| George Kangles | 1 | $500.00 |
| Mark Keesecker | 1 | $500.00 |
| Fitzgerlad Pame In-Kind | 1 | $350.00 |
| Terry Orth | 1 | $250.00 |
| John Keesecker | 1 | $200.00 |
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grafik Touch | 10 | $14,436.10 | |
| Omar Signs | 1 | $3,001.66 | |
| Johnson City Press | 4 | $2,304.58 | |
| WPWT | 1 | $1,620.00 | |
| News and Neighbor | 1 | $1,140.00 | |
| American Campaign Store | 1 | $553.23 | |
| Liturigical Publications of St. Louis,Inc. | 1 | $510.00 | |
| BJ's Best SPRTS Center | 1 | $485.63 | |
| Johnson City Sports Foundation | 1 | $350.00 | |
| Herald & Tribune | 1 | $275.58 | |
| Eddie Brittain Magic | 1 | $115.00 | |
| Office Max | 1 | $19.68 |
| Payee | Location | Purpose | Amount | Date |
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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 Lee Sowers’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Printing & mail $15,420 62%
- Advertising & media $9,371 38%
- Office & operations $20 0.1%
Filing History
Totals as filed with the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance; see About for how this data is processed.