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Spitzer’s Contributors Do Double Duty

January 23, 2008

The year-end filing for Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s federal PAC, Excelsior Committee, has shown up on the FEC Web site, and shows $30,000 worth of contributions from six individuals - five of whom who already hit the governor’s self-imposed $10,000 limit in contributions to his state-level campaign committee.

The five donors - Robert Blackwell (founder of Killerspin, a table-tennis equipment manufacturer and international event producer), Michael Falcone (Pioneer Companies CEO, served on a Spitzer economic development transition committee), Samuel Heyman (International Specialty Products), Joan Mintz (wife of Manhattan attorney Howard Markel; both big Spitzer donors) and Roger Tilles (a Board of Regents member) - each gave $5,000 to Excelsior and $10,000 to Spitzer2010 in 2007.

All told, the PAC took in $30,377 (the $377 was interest from North Fork Bank) over the past six months, spent $15,298 and ended the period with $47,973 on hand. The expenditures included $1,000 contributions to four Democratic Congressional candidates, including: Freshmen incumbents Mike Arcuri and Kirsten Gillibrand, and hopefuls Dan Maffei (he got $2,000) and Eric Massa .

The purpose of Excelsior Committee, as declared on its Web site, is to support “reform-minded and forward-thinking candidates for public office in New York and across the United States.”

Source: NY Daily News 

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