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Take Back Our Government with Manatee
County. Take Back Our Government
continued to report to the state.
Citizens Have Rights in Sarasota has taken in
$307,914 in contributions from 2012 to 2014.
CHRIS spent $182,574 during the same time
period, and appears to have been an “active”
committee for the six years since 2014 without
financial activity. There is no documentation on
the Sarasota SOE website indicating CHRIS
has disbanded. The dollars remaining in CHRIS
come to $125,340. So Legal Reform Now
closed with a deficit of $128,340, and CHRIS
has no transactions since 2014 with $125,340
in its coers.
CHRIS is noteworthy for the number of donors
giving sizable donations who don’t live in
Sarasota County. Why would a donor living in
Naples, Florida give $108,000 to a political
committee which is focused on influencing
elections in Sarasota County? It’s unusual to
find individual out-of-county donors to political
