As one alert 5th Listener has discovered, the pro-Vehicle Registration Fee PAC goes by the name Clackamas County Citizens for Jobs and Safety.

To date it has raised about $25,500 in cash to support the campaign for the proposed county registration fee.   The fifteen largest donors account for 95% of those donations ($24,250).
Q.  Care to guess how many of those fifteen donors were actually from Clackamas County?
A. Two.

Who are these people? Let us take a look:

Look at those names and what they do in the graph below. With the exception of Multnomah County chief, Jeff Cogan, it looks as if the “Jobs” in the name of the group refers to their well heeled companies’ desire to be hired by their buddies in government for any engineering on the Sellwood Bridge/Light Rail plan. And think about this: Multnomah County’s Commission chief doesn’t want to spend the county’s money on improvements to the Sellwood Bridge–a bridge which has been neglected for years by Multnomah County– but doesn’t mind ponying up money to call for a tax on another county’s voters.

1.  Oregon AFSCME                                         $5,000  (Union PAC, Salem)
2.  CH2M Hill                                                    $2,500  (Engineering firm, Portland)
3.  Jeff Cogen                                                 $2,500  (Mult. Co. Commissioner PAC, Portland)
4.  T.Y Lin Int’l                                                 $2,500  (Engineering firm, Beaverton)
5.  CenterCal Properties, LLC                           $2,500  (Developer, Tigard)
6.  Oregonians to Maintain Comm Standards     $2,500  (Trade Union Pac, Portland)
7.  Harper, Houf, Peterson & Righellis                $1,250  (Engineering firm, Portland)
8.  NW Oregon Labor Council                            $1000  (Union PAC, Portland)
9.  Michelle Giguere                                          $1000  (federal lobbyist, Portland)
10. HDR Engineering                                         $1000  (Engineering firm, Portland)
11. OTAK Inc.                                                  $1000  (Architects, Lake Oswego)
12. Brenden Barnicle                                         $500  (financial analyst, Portland)
13. James Bernard                                            $500  (Clackamas County Commissioner)
14. Int’l Longshoreman and Warehouse Union     $250  (Portland)
15. Hatch Mott MacDonald                                 $250  (Consulting Engineers,  New Jersey)  

But as we all know, the meaning of money stories is best told in ratios because it reflects the impact, meaning and relationship of one part to the whole.

Here is another way to rank the top fifteen:

1.  51% Portland donors     
2.  20% Salem donor        
3.  10% Beaverton donor   
4.  10% Tigard donor         
5.    6% Clackamas donors 

Or another way:

1. 36%  Union donors
2. 35%  Engineers/architect firms
3. 12%  Politicians
4. 10%  Developer
5.   4%  Federal transportation lobbyist

Funny that a PAC that purports to speak for Clackamas County Citizens doesn’t draw much support from them. Probably shouldn’t surprise anyone though, since the PAC itself is located in another county.

Committee Information
Name:	Clackamas County Citizens for Jobs and Safety	ID:	14912
Statement Effective From:	01/11/2011 to present	Filing Type:	Original

Director Name	Effective From	Effective To	Address	Phone	Occupation / Employer
Joe Esmonde	01/11/2011	Present	15937 NE Airport Way Portland, OR 97230		Business agent/Political director IBEW 48, Portland, OR