cash leaders - News - The Coastal Star2024-03-28T22:36:36Zhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/cash+leadersBoca Raton: Beach and Park District candidates again on the fundraising trailhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/boca-raton-beach-and-park-district-candidates-again-on-the-fundra2016-09-29T13:12:12.000Z2016-09-29T13:12:12.000ZThe Coastal Starhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/TheCoastalStar<div><p><strong>By Steve Plunkett</strong><br /> <br /> The races for the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District have new cash leaders. <br /> After the Aug. 30 primary, Seat 3 incumbent Earl Starkoff was sitting on a $2,155 war chest, while Seat 1 incumbent Dennis Frisch had $1,162.<br /> Seat 3 challenger Erin Wright nearly emptied her account right before the primary, paying $1,511.75 to Wheelhouse Branding & Marketing in Lake Worth and $500 to Political Consulting LLC in Boca Raton, leaving her $2.38. She later gathered $200 in contributions.<br /> Similarly, Seat 1 candidate Craig Ehrnst reported paying Political Consulting $4,000 and $656 to Direct Mail Impressions on Aug. 29, dropping his campaign balance to $285. Since then he has collected $655 in donations, his latest report said. <br /> Before the primary, Ehrnst, corporate treasurer at NCCI Holdings, was the cash king, with $10,030 in total contributions. Wright, owner of a home inspection business, was the early leader in raising money and peaked at $4,420.<br /> The candidates will make weekly finance reports starting Oct. 7.<br /> Both Frisch and Starkoff reported receiving in-kind donations of $1,000 from the BocaWatch online newsletter. BocaWatch.org organized a debate of all the candidates on Aug. 11, then endorsed the incumbents the following day.<br /> Since the primary, Frisch, a podiatrist, has reported collecting $25, as did Starkoff, an IT services executive.<br /> Perhaps more important to Starkoff, he picked up the endorsement of John Costello, the third-place finisher in the Seat 3 race.<br /> “I’ll be actively supporting Earl in his campaign, and I’m encouraging my supporters to join us,” Costello said in a news release sent by the Starkoff campaign.<br /> Costello, an accountant and political newcomer who did not raise money for the primary, finished with 2,979 votes, compared with Starkoff’s 4,398 and Wright’s 4,494.<br /> Medical physicist Shayla Enright, also a newcomer to politics, came in third in the Seat 1 race with 2,798 votes and has not endorsed either Frisch (5,088 primary votes) or Ehrnst (4,295 votes).<br /> If history is a guide, the presidential contest in the Nov. 8 election will bring far more voters to the polls. In 2012, the Beach and Park District race among Steven Engel, Tom Thayer and Felipe Martinez drew a collective 8,972 votes. <br />The runoff between Engel, who won, and Thayer saw 41,252 votes cast.</p>
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<p><br /><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;" class="font-size-4"><strong>Registration deadline</strong></span><br />The voter registration deadline is Oct. 11. Absentee ballots may be requested now from the Supervisor of Elections Office and must be received at the office by 7 p.m. Nov. 8. Early voting will be at the Boca Raton Downtown Library and other sites across the county from Oct. 24 through Nov. 6.</p></div>