Check Final Campaign Finance Reports

Four City Council candidates filed required post-election reports showing final campaign expenses and contributions.

The other five candidates had filed paperwork declaring that they intended to spend less than $4,000 on the campaign, which limits the reporting requirements. 

The May 8 election in Ocean City decided four seats on City Council and a binding ballot question on allowing BYOB restaurants in the dry town. 

Neither the Committee to Preserve Ocean City, nor the Friends of Shop, Dine & Play in Ocean City — the two political committees arguing opposite sides of the BYOB question — filed the required 20-day post-election report.

Earlier reports showed that the successful anti-BYOB Committee to Preserve Ocean City had raised more than three times more ($14,648) than the pro-BYOB Friends of Shop, Dine & Play in Ocean City ($3,930). The Committee to Preserve filed a report shortly before the election showing a new donation of $2,000 from Todd C. Chamberlain, CEO of Masters Legacy Planning (see attached PDF).

The Fourth Ward race saw three candidates vying for one seat. The winner, Pete Guinosso, filed a report showing a total of $7,083 in expenses in his successful campaign.

He defeated Ed Price ($10,813) and Bart Russell ($7,157) to win the Fourth Ward seat.

Michael DeVlieger ($9,086) defeated Fred Hoffman in the First Ward.

• Click on the attached PDF icons to see the campaign finance reports.
• Visit the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission website to view all campaign finance reports.
• Read Patch reports on earlier reporting deadlines: , , 

The other winners in the election were incumbent Tony Wilson in the Third Ward and Antwan McClellan in the Second Ward.

The ELEC reports are designed to make elections more transparent by disclosing to the public campaign contributors and campaign expenses.