Boren's Consultants Paid $235,800

Photo: Dan Boren with staff members opening his Claremore office.
Congressman Dan Boren, D-2nd District, has paid a long list of fundraising and general consultants $235,800 in the 2005-06 election cycle, his Federal Election Commission campaign finance reports show. Elected in 2004, Boren in this cycle has raised $821,000, spent $395,000 and had $252,000 in cash on hand as of his last report, filed in July. He also made payments on a loan from First National Bank of Wewoka in the amount of $220,652 and repaid himself for loans to his 2004 campaign, a total of almost $200,000.

Boren lists payments to 10 general consultants or fundraising specialists. Topping the list is the Oklahoma City firm Michael Carrier Enterprises, paid $55,302 with another $8,000 paid to Carrier Marshall & Associates, the firm Mike Carrier formed with Chebon Marshall in January 2005. The first sum was an amount owed from Boren's 2004 campaign, Marshall said. Other payments went to Campaign Technology Professionals, $15,760; Hamilton Beattie & Staff, $7,500; Molly Allen Associates, $37,541; and Springer & Associates, $44,106. The last two are fundraising specialists. Boren paid Edmond fundraising consultant Bobby Stem $38,000 and Stem's Capitol Gains entity another $10,000. He paid Owen Shackelford of Norman $15,000; he's the executive director of the Oklahoma Senate Democratic Political Action Committee. He paid Ward Curtin of Oklahoma City $4,682; Curtin became the deputy director of Oklahoma Senate Democrats last January after serving as Boren's campaign field director and then political director. Boren paid $16,434 to the Devonshire Institute of Oklahoma City; that's an entity tied to Boren's former chief of staff, Pete Regan, who lost the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor to Jari Askins.

Boren faces Republican Patrick Miller of Snow in the general election. The seat is rated "Safe Democrat."

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