Alex Coe's Contributions - District 1

 From the Sarasota News Leader

Coe’s reports

Alexandra Coe. Photo courtesy of her campaign

From April 1 through May 31, Coe raised $10,010 in cash and checks, and she received $3,370 in in-kind contributions. Coe gave her campaign $1,500 of the in-kind funds for rental of a “club car” and another $1,750 for the rental of a small trailer, the report notes.

During the same period, she spent $4,002.10, that report shows.

The document lists 89 contributions, with the amounts ranging from $20 to $1,000. Procore Electric of Sarasota the only entity that gave her $1,000, which is the maximum allowed by state law.

Coe did receive several $500 contributions. Those came from Sarasota retirees Eileen Schineller; Teresa Stottlemyer, co-owner of Stottlemyer’s Smokehouse restaurant and live music venue on Fruitville Road; David Koffman of Sarasota, president of HSK Industries, a private equity firm; and Sarasota retiree Susan Erhart, who has served on the board of the Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center (SPARCC) in Sarasota;

Another Sarasota retiree, Audrey Rueth, gave Coe $500 after contributing $25 almost a week earlier, the report shows.

Realtor Ruediger Weiss of Sarasota and retiree Roger Quick of Sarasota contributed $400 apiece to Coe’s campaign.

Coe’s largest payments as noted in that report went to Angelo Di Fiori for food for an event ($1,440); Gateway Media of Sarasota for brochures ($567.10); and Office Max Depot for supplies and printing ($428.47).

In the first half of June, Coe took in $8,500.48 in cash and checks, of which $5,970.48 was a loan she made to the campaign. She also reported $1,000 in in-kind contributions. The latter, as in April and May, represented Coe’s expenditures for the car and trailer rentals.

Her total expenditures for that period were $14,017.73.

The number of contributions she received during the first two weeks of June was 22. The amounts ranged once more from $20 to $1,000. The only contribution she received at the latter level came from Jim Morton of Bradenton, owner of ProspectsPLUS!, a marketing firm.

Coe listed eight contributions of $100 each, and she received $500 from John Phair, a real estate developer in South Bend, Ind.

Coe’s two largest expenditures during that period were the $5,970.48 filing fee for the County Commission race and $6,878.82 paid to Sublimation and Stitch of Sarasota for political signs. She also spent $799.18 with Opportunity Knocks of Bradenton for a direct mail campaign.

In the second half of June, Coe reported raising another $4,405 in cash or checks, and she listed $1,000 more as in-kind contributions — again, for rental of a car and a small trailer. She spent $21,882.93, the report shows.

The range for the 22 contributions listed in that report was $5 to $1,000.

Attorney Susan Schoettle-Gumm, who has been long been an advocate for controlling residential growth in District 1; and Sarasota retiree Stephen Rueth both gave Coe $1,000 apiece.

Tim Hensey, a Siesta Key retiree who led the most recent campaign to allow island residents to vote for incorporation; and retiree Harry DeBusk of Sarasota gave Coe $500 apiece.

Among her top expenditures that period, the report says, Coe paid $917.20 to In Sublimation of Sarasota for yard signs; $871.10 to Gecko’s for two event with food; $365.02 to Opportunity Knocks in Bradenton for mailers; $350.30 to ProspectsPlus! of Bradenton for mailers; and $265 to Webelect of Tampa for campaign software.