MAPLEWOOD CAMPAIGN CASH

A look at campaign contribution reports for the 2011 primaries and school district race finds a mix of campaign cash raised and spent.

Mayor Vic De Luca and newcomer India Larrier, who won the June primary for the Township Committee Democratic nomination, spent some $4,833.77 as of July 26, the last filing date, with $5,483.456 raised for their joint campaign, according to reports filed with the state.

The expenditures included $92.62 to De Luca for postage and office supplies and a repayment of a loan of $2,000 to the mayor.

De Luca also filed reports for his own campaign fund, noting $3,454 in receipts, but no expenditures. That amount included $2,604 from a previous campaign fund.

But he also received $350 from Parkwood Diner owner Peter Kikianis. Other contributions were less than $300, requiring them not to be listed individually under state law.

De Luca and Larrier’s primary opponent, Lee Navlen, reported $3,380 in contributions, all of which he loaned to himself. He did not file detailed expenditure reports as that is unnecessary if less than $4,000 is spent.

Republican candidates Bart Albini and Joel Ziegler, who won the GOP primary, did not file a detailed campaign report, stating in their disclosure forms that they did not intend to raise or spend more than $7,600 as a joint committee. Campaigns raising and spending less than that amount are not required to file specific detailed reports.

In a related move, the state cited Albini on June 26 for failing to file a report for his 2010 campaign, according to the News-Record.

De Luca and Larrier will face Albini and Ziegler in the general election Nov. 8.

On the school board side, newcomer Bill Gaudelli, who won one of the three seats up for grabs in the April election, raised and spent the most, with reports indicating he received $4070.17, all of it in contributions of $300 or less, requiring no detailed disclosure. He also spent $1343.20 as of May 17, the latest filing he made.

Among his expenditures was $228.00 for online advertising in Patch.

The two school board incumbents, South Orange residents Andrea Wren-Hardin and Sandra Karriem, filed a joint campaign report, revealing they received $1250, with Wren-Hardin’s husband David giving $750 and Maplewood lawyer Deryck Palmer donating $500.

Palmer is a major campaign contributor, with records indicating he has donated tens of thousands of dollars in the past decade to candidates ranging from Democratic New York Congressman Charles Rangel to former New Jersey Republican Congressman Mike Ferguson

Wren-Hardin and Karriem disclosed no detailed expenditures since state law does not require it for that amount.