Howard Rich wants to use “Our Children” as lab rats in his radical social experiment of school vouchers

According to the National Institute on Money in State Politics (9), Howard Rich and his allies first began testing the waters in South Carolina with smaller contributions to a small number of candidates several years ago. They really started the heavy funneling of his shady contributions into South Carolina during the 2006 elections. They spent $200,000 in this election cycle. Below are the top recipients of these contributions.

$52,500 - R – Karen Floyd – Superintendent of Education candidate (lost)
$24,500 - R – Mark Sanford – Gubernatorial Candidate (won)
$12,000 - R - Sheri Few - Legislative Candidate (lost)
$10,000 - R - Kit Spires - Legislative Candidate (won)
$9,000 - R - Mick Mulvaney - Legislative Candidate (won)
$9,000 - R - Jim Harrison - Legislative Candidate (won)
$8,000 – Write in Candidate - Michael Letts - Legislative Candidate (lost)
$7,000 – R – Danny Stacy Legislative Candidate (lost)
$6,000 - Don Bowen – Legislative Candidate (won)

So far in the 2008 election cycle Howie and his allies has funneled in $579,000 to a total of 37 candidates during the primaries. $419,000 of this amount came from at least thirty different entities using the address 73 Spring St. New York City (5). Howard Rich and his allies often contributes in the few days before an election where the public does not have a chance to see the contributions. For this reason we do not know how much Rich and his allied organizations will be funneling into the campaigns of his candidates that have challengers in the General Election but you can be sure that all of his challenged candidates will be receiving large sums of his money. Below are the recipients of his 2008 contributions. 

$3,000 - R - Kit Spires, House District 96 (won) - now unoppsed
$3,000 - R - Richard Chalk, House District 123 (won) - now unopposed
$4,000 - R - Joe Mahaffey, House District 36 (dropped out of race 2/29/08)
$4,000 - D - Ennis Bryant, House District 50 (lost)
$4,000 - R - Joe Mahaffey, House District 36 (dropped out of race 2/29/08)
$5,000 - R - Bob Leach, House District 21 (lost)
$5,000 - R - Daniel Hamilton, House District 20 (unopposed)
$5,000 - D - Levone Graves, Senate District 30 (lost)
$5,000 - D - Naim Salahudeen, House District 54
$5,000 - D - Wendell Gilliard, House District 111 (won) - now unopppsed
$6,000 - R - Mike Fair, Senate District 6 (won) - now unopposed
$7,000 - R -Greg Ryberg, Senate District 24 (won)- now unopposed
$7,000 - R -Heyward Hutson, House District 94 (lost)
$7,000 - R -Ralph Davenport, House District 37
$8,000 - D -Robert Ford, Senate District 42 (won) now facing Republican Scotty Sheriff
$8,000 -D - Zina Manning, House District 55 (lost)
$10,000 - R -Tommy Stringer, House District 18 (won) - now unopposed
$11,000 - R -James E. Whitehead, House District 83 (lost)
$12,000 - R -Deborah Long, House District 45 (won) (returned all of the money)- now facing Democrat Fredrick Thomas
$13,000 - R -Thad Viers, House District 68 (won) - now unopposed
$15,000 - D - Priscilla Robinson, House District 66 (lost)
$16,000 - R -Ken Roach, House District 34 (lost)
$16,000 - R -Tim Scott, House District 117 (won) - now unopposed
$17,000 - R - Ed Rumsey, House District 2 (lost)
$18,000 - R -Trey Whitehurst, House District 3 (lost)
$18,000 - R -Wendy Nanney, House District 22 (won) - now unopposed
$20,000 - R -Roger Nutt, House District 35 (lost)
$21,000 - R -Annie McDaniel, House District 41 (lost)
$21,000 - D - Raymond Russell, House District 31 (lost)
$21,000 - R -Scott Singer, House 81 (lost)(returned all but $3,000 of the contributions from 73 Spring Street, NYC)
$26,000 - R -Sheri Few, House District 79 (lost)
$28,000 - D - Curtis Brantley, House District 122 (won) - now unopposed
$27,000 - R -Joseph Bustos, House District 112 (lost)
$27,000 - R - Kyle Boyd, House District 48 (lost)
$32,000 - R - Joey Millwood, House District 38 (won) - now facing Democrat Mark Chambers
$33,000 - R - Dee Compton, Senate 10 (won) - now facing Democrat Floyd Nicholson
$50,000 - R - Lee Bright, Senate District 12 (won) - now unopposed
$74,000 - R - Katrina Shealy, Senate District 23 (lost) - won now unopposed

RECENT UPDATES!!!!

Rich and his allies donated $570,000 in the ’08 primaries.  Since then Rich and his allies have made the following contributions:

$1,000 – R – Mick Mulvaney – Senate District 16 – now facing Democrat Mandy Norrell
$2,000 – R – Joey Millwood – House District 38 - now facing Democrat Mark Chambers
$2,000 – R – Liston Barfield – House District 58 – now facing Democrat Fonzie Lewis
$2,000 – R – Michael Rose – Senate District 38 – now facing Petitioning Canidate Bill Collins
$3,000 – R – Phillip Lowe – House District 60 – now facing Democrat Zackery Cooper
$3,000 – R – Jill Kelso – House District 108 – now facing Democrat Vida Miller
$3,000 – R – Kevin Bryant – Senate District 3 – now facing Democrat Marshall Meadors
$9,000 – R – Wallace Scarborough – House District 115 – now facing Democrat Anne Peterson Hutto

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