Campaign Donors

Ohio Law requires a campaign finance statement to be filed twelve days before an election if more than $1,000 in contributions or expenditures occurred. Citizens for the Right to Elect did not exceed this threshold.

This is the list of contributors to "Residents for Council-Manager Government", the group supporting the City Manager form of government, as filed with the Board of Elections

Red = City of Brunswick employee, official or appointee

Blue = Former City of Brunswick employee, official or appointee

Purple = City of Brunswick contractor or works for a contractor

Grey = non-resident of Brunswick

Green - Brunswick citizen, not in one of the other categories

Reid, Berry, Marshall & Wargo	Law Firm of part time non-resident Brunswick Law Director Tim Reid	$1,000	Tim Reid's 2001 W2 & deferred compensation from Brunswick taxpayers totaled $47,678.79 for a PART TIME job! The 2001 median household income for a Brunswick family was $54,395. "Median" means half of our households earned less money and half earned more.
William Schuchart	City of Brunswick Interim City Manager	$750	Currently being paid $10,000 per month from Brunswick taxpayers. His contribution represents barely two days of pay. He lives in Brecksville.
City Architecture	Contractor for the City of Brunswick	$500	Performed Police Dept. renovations, hired for proposed central fire station and soon to renovate City Hall
Joseph Gambino	City of Brunswick Magistrate	$200
Tom Steinke	Member of City of Brunswick Board or Commission	$100
Emil Stecki	Member of City of Brunswick Board or Commission	$100
Dale & Faith Schnell	City of Brunswick Police Officer	$100	and his wife
Tom Miller	City Council Member for 10+ years	$100	also currently Vice-Mayor
Greg Crane	Former City of Brunswick Safety-Service Director	$100	28 year City of Brunswick employee, retired in August 2002
Kathy Malinak	City of Brunswick City Council Member for 15+ years	$100
Bill Fletcher	City of Brunswick Director of Brunswick Parks & Rec. Dept.	$100
Tim Manning	Accountant in Brunswick	$100	Citizen of Brunswick
Molly Sielatycki	City of Brunswick secretary to Skip Trimble and William Schuchart	$100
Jeanne Zerga	City of Brunswick Finance Director	$100
Sue & Steve Hambley	City of Brunswick City Council Member for 3+ years (Sue)	$100	Steve is currently a Medina County Commissioner and was a City of Brunswick City Council Member before his wife's election
Jennifer Horton	City of Brunswick Police Dept. Chief Dispatcher	$100
James Norman	Citizen of Brunswick	$60
Carl & Claire Draucker	Hudson, OH	$50	Carl is an attorney with Squire, Sanders and Dempsey, the Cleveland law firm that has represented the City of Brunswick in many lawsuits. Claire is a professor of KSU in their nursing program. Another section of KSU has performed studies and testing for Brunswick.
Tom Arnold	City of Brunswick Economic Development Director	$50
John Mihacevich	City of Brunswick Planning Commission Chairman	$50
Stan Umpleby	Former City of Brunswick Mayor (4 years) and former City of Brunswick Council Member for 15+ years	$50
Dave Wadsworth	City of Brunswick City Council Member for 6+ years	$50
Robert Rapp	Homestead Insurance	$40	Resident of Medina
Maureen McGinty	City of Brunswick Parks & Rec. Dept. Naturalist	$30
Don & Albert Leahy	City of Brunswick Civil Service Chairman (Don)	$25	and someone else named Albert Leahy, residency unknown and assumed to be Brunswick
TOTAL		$4,055

72% of their supporters are current Brunswick employees or appointees who accounted for 79% of their funds! 12% are non-residents or contractors of Brunswick. Wonder why that is? Perhaps political patronage is already alive and well in Brunswick? Do these people and companies think they need to "pay to play"? Ask them and let us know!