Comments on: Trouble in the 37th District

By: Del. Marsden (D-41) Already Broke A Campaign Finance Law? | ProjectVirginia

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:26:49 +0000

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By: Bwana

Bwana — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:28:18 +0000

I would be interested in knowing what the regs are regarding websites without the office listed…following your logic, it would be OK for a candidate to spend money on building up a website, testing, and having it all perfect for announcement as long as the name doesn’t have the office listed.

I do wish, though, that you would cease these timeline/regulation schedules posts. Given how clumsy the Dems have been in doing this there was every chance they weren’t in tune with what they had to get done in ten days!

By: Riley

Riley — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:30:37 +0000

Bwana, Horinko filed with SBE within 10 days of purchasing her domain that specifically includes state senate in the URL. The other domains could and were used for other purposes prior to those candidates’ filing for this race.

The clock is ticking on Marsden to establish a residence within the district, register to vote and submit his candidacy papers to SBE. He has until a week from today. Oh, yeah. Thanksgiving and a weekend are in there, too. Good luck, Davy…

By: Bwana

Bwana — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:52 +0000

Does he need to buy a house? I would imagine he can rent an apartment or just pay $100 a month to a supporter to “rent” a spare room and declare it his legal residence?

By: Bwana

Bwana — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:58:15 +0000

I am not a Dave Marsden fan, but if purchasing a domain name prior to announcing is a violation of campaign finance laws, he will have good company.

A quick whois check of campaign websites for the GOP candidates shows that:

SteveNance.Org was purchased in 1999
Horinkoforstatesenate.com was purchased on 11.3.2009
Willnance.com was purchased on 8.29.2009

With all the substantive issues-like carpetbagging-to confront Marsden, this seems like small potatoes…

By: frankoanderson

frankoanderson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:06:37 +0000

So he won by 209 votes. Isn’t that twice as many votes as the Cooch won by in 2007?

By: Bigvinu

Bigvinu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:55:41 +0000

His website is pretty bland. Run-of-the-mill WORD PRESS theme? Hell, there’s some pretty amazing stuff you can do with WordPres (Just ask Bearing Drift), and there’s some pretty, um not so amazing stuff you can do with WordPress (just ask Dave Marsden)

By: J.R. Hoeft

J.R. Hoeft — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:51:21 +0000

Looks like he has a week to file and buy a house in the district, then, Dudeman. That’s not a lot of time. I hope he finds something he likes in this market.

By: Dudeman

Dudeman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:05:55 +0000

For filing purposes, your campaign officially begins when you do any of the three actions you posted above: spend money, receive money or file papers to run. It doesn’t matter what order you do them in. As long as you submit the finance paperwork, you’re not breaking the law. Nice try.