Former County Commissioner Cindy Riegel Is a Donor to the Victor Valley Collective
A June finance report names former Teton County commissioner Cindy Riegel among the first donors to the Victor Valley Collective, the recall group's PAC.
Former Teton County commissioner Cindy Riegel is among the first named donors to the Victor Valley Collective, the political committee formed by the group whose recall drive pushed Mayor Will Frohlich to resign, according to the committee's first monthly finance report.
The report, filed July 9 and covering June, shows the committee raised $2,400 from three contributors, all giving on June 24. Treasurer Paul Merrill gave $2,000, Riegel $300, and Amy McCarthy $100.
The June report is the first campaign-finance filing to name Riegel as a backer of the committee.
The committee also made its first expenditure, $961.20 on June 30, paid to the Bronze Buffalo in Teton Springs and listed as event expenses. That left it with $1,438.80 on hand.
The Victor Valley Collective registered as a general political committee on June 11, before Frohlich announced on June 24 that he would resign, effective July 1, to spare the city a recall battle. It is chaired by Carol Nowakowski, who led the recall petition and has described the committee as the group's vehicle for future organizing. Its only earlier filing disclosed Merrill's $2,000 contribution.
The recall itself became moot once Frohlich resigned. The new report is the first accounting of what the committee has raised and spent, and the first to put names other than its treasurer on its ledger.
The committee's arrival on the public record contrasts with the effort that came before it. During the recall push against Frohlich, a mailer went out paid for by Greg Davis, yet no committee registration or independent-expenditure report for it appears in the state's campaign-finance system. A search this month confirmed it still does not, even as the Victor Valley Collective now files regular reports of its own.