Featuring everything short of crayon, perhaps the messiest paperwork ever to be filed are the campaign disclosure statements from civic elections. The statements from Edmonton’s 2010 election were made public in late April, and while there are more enjoyable things to do than read through bad handwriting and a lack of alphabetical sorting, here’s a rummage through them, starting with the Councillors for Wards 1-4.

I’ve broken it down by “top 5 donors” (a number of donors contributed to a campaign more than once, and while I’ve tried to catch each instance, the forms were scanned, and are not well sorted or searchable so I may have missed a few), “Out of Province Contributions” (as they would have to be returned under provincial rules), “Katz Group of Companies” (Donations from a company belonging to the Katz Group), and “Donations Returned”.

Ward 1 – Linda Sloan

Top 5 donors:

1.  Rex & Florence Dales – $5000

2.  Tim Shipton – $5000

3.  Union #52 Benevolent Society – $3410 + $590 Total=$4000

4.  Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 30 – $3800

5.  Edmonton Firefighters Union – $1000 + $ 590 + $590 Total=$2180

Out of Province Contributors:

D&S Gill Investments – Mississauga, ON – $1000

Dundee Realty Corp – Saskatoon, SK – $295 + $295 Total=$590

Katz Group of Companies

Medicine Shoppe Canada – $250

Contributions Returned

$0

Ward 2 – Kim Krushell

Top 5 donors:

1.  Joann & Doug Goss – $5000

2.  Brian Heatherington – $5000

3.  Edmonton Firefighters Union – $1000 + $1000 Total=$2000

4.  Alldritt Development – $1600

5.  Jatec Ltd. – $1590

Out of Province Contributors

$0

Katz Group of Companies

$0

Contributions Returned

$0

Ward 3 – Dave Loken

Top 5 Donors:

1.  Amalgamated Transit Union Local 569 – $2500

2.  Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 30 – $1500

3.  Union #52 Benevolent Society – $1500

4.  Coalition of Edmonton Civic Unions – $1200

5.  UFCW – $1200

Out of Province Contributions

$0

Katz Group of Companies

$0

Contributions Returned

$0

Ward 4 – Ed Gibbons

Top 5 Donors:

1.  Brian Heatherington – $5000

2.  Edmonton Firefighters Union – $2000

3.  Amalgamated Transit Union #569 – $2000

4.  Aurum Industrial Development Partnership – $2000

5.  Alldritt Land Corporation LP – $1600

Out of Province Contributions

Clareview Properties Partnership – Toronto, ON – $1180

Dr. Lee Busse/Eleanor Adcock – Burnaby, BC – $590

Dundee Realty Corp – Saskatoon, SK – $590

1510837 Alberta Ltd. – (address in) Toronto, ON – $200

Katz Group of Companies

The Medicine Shop – $295

Contributions Returned

$0