As I told you yesterday, six Democrats want to be their party's candidate to take on Ryan Mackenzie in November's Pa.7 Congressional election. Candidates who intend to raise or spend more than $5,000 must file a financial disclosure with the Clerk of the US House within 30 days of raising or spending that amount. These disclosures are unrelated to the funds raised or spent on a campaign. They instead identify the assets and income.
At this point, the "qualified" candidates on the Dem side are Robert Brooks, Ryan Crosswell, Lamont McClure, Carol Obando-Derstine and Mark Pinsley. All of these candidates have filed financial disclosure reports, although Pinsley was late with his required report and will be fined.
What the reports reveal is that all of the candidates, with the exception of Crosswell, participate in mutual funds.
Robert Brooks. - reports assets and unearned income of at least $963,000. This includes a residential rental property valued at between $250,000 and $500,000 and the stocks in multiple mutual funds. He reports salaries of $20,000 from Bethlehem and $50,000 from the Pa Professional Firefighter's Ass'n, as well as business income of $15,000 from his lawn care business.
He reports debt of between $380,000 and $850,000 based on a residential mortgage, an investment property mortgage, and outstanding debt to Darrell and Linda Crook. He failed to list a $130,000 judgment owed to Carol Wiley, his former mother-in-law, since 2022.
A title search of Northampton County records reveal that Brooks owns no real estate under his own name, nor is there any recorded mortgage in which he is listed.
Something is very fishy about Brooks' disclosure.
Ryan Croswell. - reports having no assets or unearned income. He apparently participates in no mutual funds or the stock market. He reports a salary of $47,104.62 before he resigned from the Department of Justice. He also has received $13,542.12 from the Department of Defense and has received 1099s from the Singleton Schreiber law firm for $4,394.50. That law firm has no offices in this part of the country. He also lists the Antonin Scalia School of Law as a potential source of wages.
Crosswell owes between $10,000-50,000 for a car loan.
Lamont McClure. - reports assets and unearned income of at least $343,000 through his participation in various mutual funds. His income was his $85,000 salary as NorCo Exec. He also lists his wife's salary and pension.
McClure's debt is between $90,000 and $215,000 for his mortgage, a loan to replace his roof, a third loan to fix his fireplace so Santa could come down and an auto loan.
Carol Obando-Derstine. - reports assets and unearned income of at least $500,000 through her participation in mutual funds. Her income was a $44,410 salary from PPL. Like McClure, she also lists her spouse's salary. She lists no debts to anyone.
Mark Pinsley. - His report was just filed on January 5, and though he lists his participation in numerous mutual funds and stocks, I have been unable to do the math at this point. He lists a salary of $79,000 as Lehigh County's Controller. He also lists his wife's salary.
His debt is between $325,000 and $665,000 for a business loan and lines of credit from three credit card companies.
What about incumbent Republican Ryan Mackenzie? I have a report from him for 2025 and am looking to see if there is something more recent.
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Bottom line - I want to go to congress so I can jump on the gravy train
Mackensie just sealed his reelection, siding with the dems on health care.
The Republican Crosswell is such a phony. He has no spouse and has no children. Yet, he tries to create the impression that his nieces and nephews are his kids. Everything about this guy is fake. He’s even trying to fake a family.
Who is bankrolling Ryan Crosswell? How can he afford to live in the Lehigh Valley with no salary or investment income? What landlord would give him a lease?
Well, I would say McClure doesn’t manage his money very well lol.
"She lists no debts to anyone" --- We have a winner! Carol is clearly the most fiscally responsible person running. A shame she can't seem to raise money.
OTOH, it's absurd that the "fiscal watchdog" Lehigh County Controller didn't submit financial disclosure forms in a timely manner.
How much are Lamont mutual funds worth??? How much is his pension from the county??? Did you forget all that. If you take his and wife salary guessing they live in a row home in South easton because puts his home value at 150 thousand???
You will type anything to make this guy look good..
Real man of the people that Crooksy.
Voters like me won’t forget his vote for the big beautiful (an obvious misnomer) Trump bill for the super wealthy
No he didn’t.
I didn't forget anything related to McClure's finance. It is all there.
That seems way low for MCClure. Wonder what he’s hiding
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