Unreported funding paired with big dollar donations from downstate nursing home operators to the Dixon campaign in the final days before Election Day is raising concerns of election law violations and other improprieties inside the Republican candidate’s campaign, already being heavily subsidized by the NYS Republican Party. Alarm bells began ringing as the flagging GOP candidate, whose campaign reported only $16,839.61 cash on hand at the 11 Day Pre-General Filing and added an additional $14,000 via the 24 hour notice period (for a total of approximately $30,000 cash on hand) has now suddenly spent over $110,000 on additional television advertising. This mysterious, undisclosed $80,000 in new funding is potentially a violation of election law that the Poloncarz campaign will bring to the attention of the NYS Board of Elections through a formal complaint.
In addition, Dixon is receiving support from disgraced downstate nursing home operators such as Benjamin and Judy Landa, owners of the notorious and now-closed Emerald South nursing facility in Buffalo, who have funneled over $214,000 to the NYS Republican Party to support the GOP candidate. Joining the Landas is their business partner Moshe Kelman, a Brooklyn resident and administrator at Sapphire Care, which operates low-rated nursing facilities here in Erie County. Kelman donated $10,000 directly to the Dixon campaign, according to the 24 hour notices.
“Election law is very clear in stating that a candidate must disclose how much money he or she has on hand, as well as where that money came from, and also requires candidates for office to disclose these details at regular intervals during the election process.
Transparency and accountability are maintained in this way, so that the public can see who is supporting candidates financially and how much support they are getting,” said Poloncarz campaign spokesman Peter Anderson. “What we are seeing here from the Dixon campaign is a willful subversion of the law, just days before Election Day. Despite reporting only $30,000 cash on hand last week, recently her campaign dropped over $110,000 on advertising. She did not report having this money nor disclose where it came from, both serious violations of the law. Where did that extra, unreported $80,000 come from? What other funding has she hidden from public view? Why is she breaking the law and why won’t she come clean with voters?”
Candidates for public office are required by law to submit regular filings listing the amount of cash their campaigns have and also disclose where that funding came from, information that is public and available for all to see.
Dixon’s undisclosed spending binge in recent days would mean that her campaign spent all of the $30,000 that was known to be on hand along with another approximately $80,000 that the candidate somehow mysteriously brought in after October 21, a pace of approximately $8,000 dollars a day. All donations over $1,000 are required by law to be filed within a 24-hour cycle from the time they are received, which did not happen.
“The Poloncarz campaign will be filing a formal complaint with the NYS Board of Elections about this flagrant violation of the law, as everyone should know who is filling a candidate’s coffers. There’s no way of knowing how much other cash the Dixon campaign has hidden and not reported, or who is really bankrolling her campaign, but such brazen dishonesty and disregard for the law is shocking and should make voters pause,” Anderson concluded. “It is especially disheartening that she is taking money from people under whose watch our seniors suffered and died. That’s unconscionable.”
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