Follow The Money in District 34

All excerpts from Caprio raises most cash in Assembly races as published in the South County Independent, by Liz Boardman/Independent Staff Writer

Teresa Tanzi, Caprio's Democratic challenger in the Sept. 14 primary, started the reporting period with $10,071.63 in her coffers. She raised an additional $3,975.55, including $2,610 in small donations.

Larger donations came from physician Jeffreys Bandola of Wakefield ($140); Alan Woodmansee of Wakefield ($500) and  Marianne O'Neill, a homemaker in Narragansett ($250). Narragansett Town Council candidate Ryan Drugan also donated $34 to the Tanzi campaign.

Tanzi spent $5,452.23, including $100 to the Wakefield Downtown Merchants Association and $120 to the Narragansett Chamber of Commerce; $500 to Left Brain, an integrative marketing company in Providence; $750 to NGP Software of Washington, D.C., for consulting services, and $260 to Balloon Imprinting of Gardena, Calif.

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Democratic Rep. David Caprio leads the way in fund-raising in local General Assembly races, picking up $19,760 from individuals and political action committees in the last reporting period, which ran from April 1 to June 30.

Caprio, who is the incumbent in the District 34 race representing Narragansett and South Kingstown, began the period with $39,481.81 on hand.

His list of larger donations reads like "Who's Who in Rhode Island," including former Lt. Gov. Richard Licht ($150), former Speaker of the House William Murphy ($200), the Cardi Brothers, Nick, Ron and Pete ($150 each), lobbyist Andrew Annaldo ($250) and trial lawyer Eva Mancuso ($300). Political action committees also contributed $3,150 ...

Caprio spent $6,352.98, including $1,500 to Amy Gabarra of Providence, for event planning and fund-raising; $3,000 to Primedia of Warwick for consultant services, and $276 and $232, respectively, for ads in the Narragansett Times and the South County Independent.

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After the primary, the winner will face Republican Timothy Burchett of Narragansett, who, according the state Board of Elections Web site, is not required to file a financial report until Oct. 4, 28 days before the election.

Likewise, the independent in the race, Peter J. Stone of Narragansett, has submitted a filing exemption that states he will not accept contributions of more than $100, or spend more than $1,000 in the calendar year, so he is not required to file an expense report.