Laurens police chief Tom Shaw has run a grassroots campaign for the Iowa legislature. His campaign finance reports filed just days before the Tuesday election show a hundred contributors chipping in over $6000. No contributions exceed $300. Many are from Laurens residents. The vast majority of funds come from within the legislative district.
Shaw’s expenses are mainly for printing, postage, and advertising in newspapers. In addition he has spent more than two thousand dollars of his own money driving around the district to campaign. He bought a thousand copies of pocket U.S. Constitutions for his campaign.
Also in the race is physician Steve Richards of Algona. Richards has raised more than twice as much as Shaw and has spent twice as much. Contributions came mostly from the Algona area. At the beginning of this month Richards had a balance in his campaign account that was nearly as large as Shaw has spent in this campaign, due in part to money loaned to the campaign in the past.
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