Full disclosure

That’s a picture of me with my single biggest contributor, Einar Ristroph. He has always been my favorite among my Ristroph cousins.

Here’s a more recent photo of Einar out in California –

Einar made an in-kind contribution of $699 for some print ads with Gulf Coast Media. My other contributors were all from Fairhope –

Charles Morehead	$100
Geraldine Payne	$100
Susan Simmons	$18 (in-kind)

Charles has known me since we moved here in ’78. He was a colleague of my Mom’s at the Corps of Engineers in Mobile. Charles and I evacuated to Moundville together during Frederic in ’79, so it’s fair to say that we go back a ways.

Geri is a friend of Charles.

Susan is a neighbor and a dear friend. That $18 is for the first box of card stock to print our flyers.

As for expenditures, the biggest two have been card stock and ink (it takes a lot of magenta) to print my flyers. That had to be around 50 or 60 dollars total. Registration and hosting for the domain howellgibbens.com was around $30. I’m using the open-source version of WordPress, so the blogging platform is free. The little “share” buttons at the bottom of each post require a plug-in that costs around $5 a month.

I also upgraded my campaign instagram account to “verified”, which runs $13 a month.

My signs were left over from 5 years ago. We’ve put out fewer than two dozen.

I had hoped to spend another $400 or so to broadcast a radio commercial on WABF. It is a catchy commercial, and the music is by a band that I adore, but they politely declined my request for permission to use it on the radio. This actually turned out to be for the best, since that expenditure would have put me over the $1,000 limit set by the State.

That covers it, I think. If you have any questions, concerns, or want me to get it down to the penny, just let me know.