North Idaho Political Action Committee leads PAC finances

Only two local political action committees in each of the parties filed campaign disclosure forms with Idaho's Secretary of State office on Tuesday's pre-primary deadline.

The North Idaho Political Action Committee has raised the most money of the four groups, bringing in $31,841 during the filing period between Jan. 1 and May 4. It received an additional $1,000 donated after May 4.

The Kootenai County Democratic Club raised the second-largest amount of $10,679 for the same reporting period, $6,759 of which came from 218 people who donated the unitemized amount of $50 or less.

The Kootenai County Democratic Central Committee comes in third, raising a total of $9,621, and the Kootenai County Republican Concerned Citizens raised $4,502 with another $3,000 from the Integrity in Government PAC of Cottonwood, Idaho.

NIPAC spent $7,839 of its war chest during the filing period, mostly on candidates and in-kind donations and gifts. It had $25,581 in the bank at the end of the period.

NIPAC's Republican rival, the KCRCCPAC, spent $3,926 mostly on literature and mailings. It also had several in-kind expenditures on the candidates it supports at the state and local levels. KCRCCPAC ended the period with $576 in the bank.

The KCDCC spent $5,848 mainly on operating expenses, events, literature and postage. The committee ended the period with $12,640 in the bank.

The KCDCC spent $6,264, mostly on event expenses, donations and gifts. The club had $7,932 on hand at the end of the reporting period.