Monday afternoon’s deadline for local candidates to file campaign financial statements came and went. When the clock in the elections office struck 5 p.m., Tolley Gorham, the candidate seeking the District 3 supervisor seat, and Brad Aborn, who wants to be re-elected to the District 1 post, missed the cutoff.

Gorham has formed a campaign committee, and therefore is required by state law to file the state’s Form 460 outlining expenses and contributions. Aborn, who does not have a committee on file, should have filed a Form 470 as the incumbent in the race. The required forms cover campaign financial transactions from Jan. 1 through March 17 and for the election calendar year.

As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, neither Gorham or Aborn had filed.

The other three candidates in the District 3 race, incumbent Janet Mankins-Bibby, Floyd Davis, and Theresa Castaldi, all met the deadline, as did Doug Binnewies and Mark Jones, who are jousting for the position of sheriff.

Castaldi is already upside down in her campaign. She shows contri- tions totaling $916.24, which include a $648.24 loan from her business, Coyote Springs Ranch. Her expenditures total $1,117.18. She lists four individual contributions ($99, $50, $20, $99), all under the $100 ceiling of requiring the contributor’s name.

To date, Davis shows $1,400.14 in contributions, all of which has come from his own engineering firm, except for $300 from Barbara Jackson of Fresno.

Mankins-Bibby lists $2,299 in contributions received. All but $200 has come out of her own pocket. Robert Love has made two $50 contributions, and retired Sheriff Pelk Richards chipped is $100. The incumbent shows expenditures totaling $1,252.60.

In a mailed campaign fund solicitation in District 3, Gorham stated the incumbent had “nearly unlimited funds.” So far, it appears she is just the best financed, since Gorham didn’t file his statement.

The big dollars are in the race for the County’s top cop.

Binnewies, the current undersheriff, has raised better than double the funds of his opponent. His statement shows $7,940 in contributions and the list of named supporters read’s like veritable who’s who of Mariposa County.

The following is a list of the named financial contributors to Binnewies’ campaign: Pelk Richards ($250), Brian Muller ($1,000), Marvin Wells ($100), Robert and Esther Binnewies ($2,000), Kevin Cann ($148), Troy and Shirley Foster ($400), Ron and Cynthia Iudice ($200), Tom and Catherine Maples ($100), Roger and Rebecca Matlock ($100), Arthur Mazanec II ($300), Mary Paige ($100), Byron and Cindy Robles ($100), Norman and Donna Ross ($100), Donald and Kathleen Rumfelt ($100), Helen Allen ($200), William and Jane ($100), Harold Casto ($100), and Linda Sinclair ($100).

Non-monetary contributions listed in Binnewies’ statement total $1,677.22, including $272.22 from Pioneer Market and $1,000 from Pizza Factory, and $105 from Neil and Susan Stonum, all of which were donated for his fund raiser held at the fairgrounds.

To date, Binnewies lists expenses totalling $5,362.95, excluding the non-monetary contributions.

Jones lists a total of $3,385.35 in contributions for the calendar year.

His contributors include: Gene and Kay Mickel ($200), Wallace and Natalie Stiers ($200), Michael and Sharon Fagalde ($100), James and Barbara Stingl ($100), James Samples ($100), and Rolland Wright ($1,000). Jones’ statement also shows $227.35 from numerous unidentified contributors at his fund raiser held at Pizza Plus, along with six others who contributed less than $100.

Non-monetary contributions include $199 from Debra Allsup for a newspaper ad, $152.85 in food costs donated by Steve Knauf at Pizza Plus, $68 in paint for signs from Wallace Stiers, and $50 for wood sign products from Wright.

Jones lists $2,949.18 in expenses for the calendar year.

Both candidates for the post of Mariposa County Auditor met the filing deadline.

William (Bill) Davis has funded his own campaign without contributors in the amount of $3,669 and he lists expenses totalling $3,547.

Eric Oster has contributed $1,016.45 from his own pocket to his campaign, and lists no contributors. Oster’s expenses are shown at $516.45

Lee Stetson, a former supervisor who is seeking to unseat Aborn, met the filing deadline and shows he has plugged $3,000 of his own funds into his election campaign. Stetson’s listed expenditures add up to $1,406.

According to Roman Porter at the California Fair Political Practices Commission, candidates can be fined up to $5,000 per infraction, and the commission can seek treble damages in a civil suit for unreported financial contributions. He also said that any violation of campaign reform is punishable as a misdemeanor, but that charges must be filed by the district attorney of that jurisdiction.

The county can also levy a late filing fee, but traditionally has waived the fine.

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