Richard Bradley Staats — 2012 U.S. Representative, District 5 campaign
2012 U.S. Representative, District 5 · totals since Apr 1, 2012
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 → · 6 filings · 12G 2012–YE 2012
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 →
11% 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 89%.
Largest part: loans (line 13), 49% 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 →
87% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (13% from out of state).
- Nashville $12K36%
- Brentwood $5K15%
- Goodlettsville $4K11%
- Memphis $3K8%
- Murfreesboro $3K8%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $3K
- Other out-of-state $4K
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — May 2012 – Nov 2012. Peak $12,500 in Oct 2012. Spending peaked at $44,643 in Nov 2012.
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 32 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Miller Jr | 1 | $2,500.00 |
| R Brad Martin | 1 | $2,500.00 |
| Kenya M Rankin | 1 | $2,500.00 |
| Kelly V Bates | 1 | $2,500.00 |
| Charles R Carroll | 1 | $2,500.00 |
| Janell R Sanders | 1 | $2,500.00 |
| Joey Jacobs | 1 | $2,400.00 |
| Albert B McCall | 1 | $2,000.00 |
| Donald M Davis | 1 | $2,000.00 |
| David G Ridings | 2 | $1,500.00 |
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staats, Richard B. | 2 | $34,941.19 | |
| Troy Brewer CPA Inc. | 3 | $6,100.00 | |
| Cumulus Media | 1 | $5,100.00 | |
| Vinyltech Signs | 2 | $4,743.13 | |
| Harris Media LLC | 1 | $4,000.00 | |
| 3 Star Strategies LLC | 5 | $3,800.00 | |
| Facebook.Com | 7 | $3,485.52 | |
| Gill Media Inc. | 1 | $3,000.00 | |
| Persuasion Partners | 2 | $1,750.00 | |
| Shorter, John ↺ donor $636.10 | 3 | $1,636.10 | |
| Jac Consulting | 1 | $1,226.59 | |
| Kaegi, Bryan | 1 | $1,033.96 | |
| R & F Communications | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Tennessee Republican Party Federal Election Account | 1 | $870.00 | |
| Ellendale's | 1 | $743.14 | |
| Firstbank | 4 | $734.79 | |
| WQSV Radio | 1 | $600.00 | |
| Postmaster | 3 | $594.15 | |
| WMDB Radio | 1 | $480.00 | |
| TBLC Media Inc. | 1 | $460.00 | |
| Staats, Bethany ↺ donor $1,275.00 | 1 | $365.00 | |
| Data Direct | 1 | $300.00 | |
| Cheatham County Gop ↺ donor $1,000.00 | 1 | $300.00 | |
| Hartline, Jeff | 1 | $283.26 |
| 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 Richard Bradley Staats’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Loan & debt repayment $34,941 45%
- Advertising & media $14,126 18%
- Consulting & professional services $10,300 13%
- Printing & mail $8,721 11%
- Office & operations $5,035 6%
- Fundraising & events $1,913 2%
- Field & voter contact $1,227 2%
- Travel $648 0.9%
- Contributions & donations $636 0.9%
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 2012 | $9,117.52 | $743.79 | Source: YE 2012 filing |
| 30G 2012 | $49,207.63 | $9,117.52 | Source: 30G 2012 filing |
| 12G 2012 | $36,644.01 | $49,207.63 | Source: 12G 2012 filing |
| Q3 2012 | $50,861.83 | $36,644.01 | Source: Q3 2012 filing |
| 12P 2012 | $49,261.83 | $50,861.83 | Source: 12P 2012 filing |
| Q2 2012 | $0.00 | $49,261.83 | Source: Q2 2012 filing |