At last week’s Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association meeting, David Gammino announced he was challenging Marty Jewell for his 5th District Council seat.
The Times Dispatch is now reporting that Jewell has failed to account for his fundraising.
From the article:
While he said he doesn’t plan to make it an issue, Gammino said Jewell’s “inability to file election campaign disclosures and reports speaks to his organizational skills or lack thereof, and his transparency, or lack thereof.”
Gammino said he has been working to build relationships in the district’s South Side precincts, where a challenge by Woodland Heights civic leader Lee Shewmake split the vote in a three-way race with Jewell and Randolph neighborhood businessman Mark Brandon.
Gammino knows my top ten issues for the neighborhood:
https://www.oregonhill.net/2011/06/17/top-ten-issues-for-the-neighborhood/
The issue with Councilman Jewell NOT reporting donations is a big deal. He has made very questionable decisions during his terms in favor of certain developers over the protests of constituents that could be considered affecting interstate commerce. I would assume the proper authorities are investigating these situations. I guess Mr Jewell does have going for him a consistent pattern of incompetency but under the circumstances, it would be in the voters best interests that his accounting (or lack thereof) be fully scrutinized.