Council candidates and their money

So now that most of the candidates for Cincinnati City Council have filed the first reports that show how much money they're collecting for this year's campaign, here's a few nuggets from them.


Everybody likes to know who financier Carl Lindner gives his cash to. He's on Sam Malone's satatement for $1,000, as is his wife, Edith. Carl and Edith each gave $1,000 to John Cranley, Leslie Ghiz, Chris Monzel, John Eby, Charlie Winburn.


Cranley: $1,000 each from Bob Castellini; and Stan Chesley.


Ghiz: $50 from Jean Schmidt, $500 from Dwight Tillery, $1,000 from the Taft, Stettinius & Hollister Better Government Fund, $1,000 from Castellini.


Chris Monzel: $1,000 from the Keating, Muething & Klekamp (Pat Fischer's law firm) PAC; $500 from the PAC at Frost Brown Todd LLC; $1,000 from the Fifth Third Bancorp PAC.


Malone, Winburn and Eby got $5,000 checks from the county Republican party.


Christopher Smitherman: in 2005, $500 from Chris Bortz.


Sean Lackey: $500 from Otto Budig Jr. (That plus one more dollar makes up the whole of Lackey's reported contributions)


Greg Harris: $2,500 each from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 212 and Plumbers Pipe Fitters Local 392.

Joan Kaup: $1,000, Melody Sawyer Richardson; $1,000, Bobbie Sterne.


Winburn: $1,000, Castellini; $1,000, Richard Farmer; $1,000, Covington developer Bill Butler, $2,500, Mike Allen's campaign committee.


Cecil Thomas: $1,000, Chesley.