You might be surprised who the top donors to the Lane County Republican Party are

Did some light reading today through the campaign finance sections of several GOP PACs to see which local businesses might be donating to them. I figured that like looking through local health inspector reports, there might be a few surprises. As they say, every dollar is a vote, so hopefully you can use this information to vote with your dollars.

Here's our top direct donors to the Lane County Republican Central Committee since 2017

• Crisdental (Dental practice) $3800 in 2023
• Third Generation Painting $1000 in 2020
• Staton Companies (contractor) $1000 in 2020
• Builder's Electric $500 in 2019
• Camp Creek Electric $500 in 2019
• Centennial Steakhouse $460 in 2020
• Northwest Arsenal $300 in 2019
• Papa's Pizza $250 (in-kind contribution) in 2018
• Tomlin Benefit Planning (insurance agency) $250 in 2020
• KKNX and KEED Radio $200 in 2020
• Wynat's Family Nutrition (health food store) $200 in 2019

*I'm only including names of companies consumers might actually recognize. There's a number of other individuals, PACs and various LLCs you've probably never heard of which rank highly on these lists

Some other honorable mentions:

• Clairmont-Kincaid Apartments $500 to Friends of Christine Drazan
• Ray's Towing $1000 to Friends of Christine Drazan

PS All this information is public record, you can do your own digging here