Can an average citizen compete against Jensen’s $46/vote powergrab with the financial assistance of Noblesville’s Mayoral King Makers?
Consider the $145,842 Chris Jensen has for funding BEFORE 2019 contributions started is enough to spend $46/vote and easily win the Mayoral race by a 58% to 42% margin if 2015 stats hold true!
Big money has arrived in Noblesville’s Mayoral election campaign.
Chris Jensen’s campaign committee is called “Jensen for Noblesville”, but a detailed look at his campaign contributions, Official CFA-4 records, for 2017-18 suggests otherwise.
Special Interests dominate the whopping total fundraising contributions of over $140,000. About 71% came from outside Noblesville, including money from donors in Washington D.C., California, Colorado, and Illinois. Over $41K came from Political Action Committees or Other Organizations, including his single biggest donor, “Ditslear for Mayor”.
But the real story is in the long list of corporations and corporate executives connected to Development, Real Estate, Engineering, Construction, Consulting, and other supporting Special Interests. Over 50 different corporations are named, so the list reads like a Who’s Who of LLC’s associated with development in the Central Indiana area.
Of course you’ll find Rebar Companies (tax supported developer of ‘The Levinson’), Blue Sky Technology (tax supported new building at Federal Hill), and Noblesville Fieldhouse LLC (tax supported), but many are more difficult to clearly identify. The list adds up to a total of about $77K of donations from specific corporations or individuals linked to corporations and Special Interests.
Bottom line, only about $11K, or about 8% of Jensen’s total campaign contributions come from Noblesville resident individuals not somehow linked to some Special Interest.
We know who will represent central Indiana “Big Money”, but the voters of Noblesville have to ask themselves – Who will represent them?
Brainard 2015 Campaign Dollars spent/vote
With Jensen’s 2019 contributions he could easily eclipse the $51/vote sum total of all combined spending in the 2015 Carmel Mayoral and City Council races.
