Sharon G Lee — 2014 Tennessee Supreme Court campaign
2014 Tennessee Supreme Court · totals since Jan 16, 2014
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-General 2014–Q4 2014
Ended With What was left in the campaign’s account when its reporting closed — the ending balance on its final report for this race. It is a leftover, not a war chest: money still to be spent, refunded, given away, or carried into the next campaign. Full definition →
$8,949
as of the Q4 report
Receipts The sum of Total Receipts on the selected published reports. Open the receipt to check each report and any exclusions. Full definition →
$339,402
includes $42,939 in small gifts the filer reported as a lump sum
Loan entries in filing detail: $18,000. The report totals above govern this headline.
Itemized in-kind Goods or services donated to the campaign instead of cash — say, free printing or donated consulting — reported at fair-market value. Counted toward the same $200 disclosure threshold as cash gifts. This figure adds the in-kind contributions itemized on the selected reports. The Registry reports in-kind apart from receipts, so it is not part of the receipts figure. Full definition →
$3,741
goods or services itemized on these reports
Total Spent
$312,453
Donors
521
total donors; qualifying names are listed below
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 →
Largest part: individuals, itemized, 79% of receipts on these reports.
Individuals, itemized $269K · 79%Organizations and PACs, itemized $8K · 2%Unitemized contributions $43K · 13%Loans, interest and other receipts, net of refunds $18K · 5%
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 →
$533average gift
$250median gift
505individual donors
Share of donors Share of dollars
Under $50
$50–200
$200–1K
$1K–5K
$5K+
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 →
93% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (7% from out of state).
Tennessee $257,063 Out of state $20,400
- Knoxville $50K18%
- Nashville $45K16%
- Madisonville $22K8%
- Memphis $19K7%
- Chattanooga $11K4%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $110K
- Other out-of-state $20K
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Mar 2014 – May 2015. Peak $97,627 in Jul 2014. Spending peaked at $223,249 in Jul 2014.
Cash contributions Spent
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 460 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 68 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $9,329 and their names are withheld.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Dan Stanley | 1 | $3,800.00 |
| Peter J Alliman | 1 | $3,800.00 |
| James F Logan Jr | 1 | $3,800.00 |
| Adrian Altshuler | 1 | $3,800.00 |
| Judy Lee | 1 | $3,800.00 |
| N Burton Lee | 1 | $3,800.00 |
| James Lee | 1 | $3,800.00 |
| Rebecca M Lee | 1 | $3,800.00 |
| Thomas A Moore | 1 | $3,800.00 |
| Judith L Moore | 1 | $3,800.00 |
Dates
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buying Time, LLC | 4 | $168,667.00 | |
| Righttarget Strategies, LLC | 3 | $43,769.59 | |
| Murphy Vogel Askew Reilly LLC | 3 | $22,879.57 | |
| McCullough, Victoria | 7 | $17,347.89 | |
| Gadd, Brenda | 6 | $13,911.85 | |
| Hockaday, Turcan ↺ donor $323.04 | 3 | $8,760.27 | |
| Harpeth Strategies | 1 | $5,060.00 | |
| Winning Connections | 1 | $4,478.87 | |
| Andrews, Carol | 3 | $3,676.38 | |
| McNeely, Piggot, & Fox | 1 | $3,413.31 | |
| Lee, Sharon ↺ donor $1,000.00 | 1 | $2,852.80 | |
| Baxley, Harold | 1 | $2,823.59 | |
| Paypal | 3 | $1,909.36 | |
| Tennessee Democratic Party | 1 | $1,666.66 | |
| Hampton Inn - Memphis | 4 | $964.20 | |
| US Postal Service | 2 | $876.44 | |
| Bowers, Spencer | 1 | $666.66 | |
| Meadowview Conference Center | 1 | $641.00 | |
| Mendes, Bob | 1 | $580.00 | |
| Bliss, Mimi | 1 | $575.00 | |
| Slater, Stephanie ↺ donor $505.00 | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Athletic Printing & Embroidery | 2 | $477.97 | |
| Ward, Shelley | 1 | $450.00 | |
| RCM Banquet | 1 | $388.69 | |
| 1 | $372.09 | ||
| Kinko's | 1 | $317.00 | |
| Lee, Tammy | 1 | $300.00 | |
| B. Keeling Photography | 1 | $285.00 | |
| First Tennessee Bank | 2 | $276.00 | |
| Jive Printing | 1 | $263.63 | |
| Imageprint & Copy | 1 | $238.60 | |
| The Mad Platter | 1 | $233.33 | |
| Diamond Printing Company | 1 | $200.29 | |
| Dead End BBQ | 1 | $181.36 | |
| Hampton Inn - Nashville | 1 | $168.06 | |
| Quality Inn - Jackson | 1 | $167.54 | |
| Doubletree - Jackson | 1 | $120.26 | |
| Hampton Inn - Dickson | 1 | $113.62 | |
| Corsair Artisan Taproom | 1 | $110.00 | |
| Budget Car Rental | 1 | $101.42 | |
| Priceline | 1 | $100.80 | |
| Wdeb | 1 | $100.00 |
Dates
| Payee | Location | Purpose | Amount | Date |
|---|
Loans
$18,000.00 in loan balances shown. The filings date all of it to this campaign. Later reports can repeat an outstanding loan, so each reconstructed lender balance is counted once below.
| Lender | Type | Received | Balance shown | Repaid | Outstanding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self (Sharon G Lee) | Candidate loan | Jul 28, 2014 | $18,000.00 | $0.00 | $18,000.00 |
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 Sharon G Lee’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Advertising & media $236,368 76%
- Consulting & professional services $43,502 14%
- Office & operations $8,195 3%
- Travel $6,024 2%
- Printing & mail $5,787 2%
- Other $5,064 2%
- Fundraising & events $4,378 1%
- Field & voter contact $1,667 0.6%
Loans
| Lender | Amount | Date Received | Outstanding | Repaid |
|---|
Each loan shows its balance as of the candidate's most recent filing; repayments since then appear when the next report is filed.
Filing History
Totals as filed with the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance; see About for how this data is processed.
| Filing | Cash Beginning | Cash Ending | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 2014 | $8,966.36 | $8,949.36 | Source: Q4 2014 filing Report 59253 |
| Pre-General 2014 Amended | $163,607.74 | $129,912.55 | Source: Pre-General 2014 filing Report 61287 |
| Q3 2014 Amended | $129,912.55 | $8,966.36 | Source: Q3 2014 filing Report 61288 |
| Q2 2014 Amended | $9,448.82 | $163,607.74 | Source: Q2 2014 filing Report 59249 |
| Q1 2014 | $0.00 | $9,448.82 | Source: Q1 2014 filing Report 50676 |