Thank you everyone who attended tonight's fundraiser at the Portuguese American Club. It was a great event and it was effectively "sold out" with the room filled to capacity (A little over 100 people).
Special thank you to Peter Gouveia for setting everything up and the folks at the Portuguese American Club for an awesome meal.
The next and final fundraiser is NEXT Sunday (eight days from now) on 10/27 at Zandri's Stillwood Inn - see you there. 
DINNER FUNDRAISER at the Portuguese Club
51 SOUTH COLONY ROAD, WALLINGFORD
SATURDAY OCTOBER 19, 2013 at 7PM
Pork Loin, Baked Chicken, Seafood Rice, Oven Roasted Potatoes, Salad and Rolls
Dessert and Cash Bar
Dinner cost - $25.00 donation
Please make all checks out to “Jason Zandri for Mayor Committee”
Thank you everyone that has supported the campaign to date – while the donations have exceeded my expectations I am still in need of more so if you can come to the dinner and lunch fundraisers and have something to eat (with the cost of your meals as a donation) I would greatly appreciate it. (More on that at the end of this post).
In one filing period the Republican machine raised 60 percent of the totals we have since the start of the campaign.
As reported in the Record Journal story by Andrew Ragali – back in July Mayor Dickinson hadn’t started fundraising. As of Thursday October 10th (three months later) he had contributions totaling $17,623. Mayor Dickinson spent $6,802.89 during the three month reporting period, leaving him with $10,820.11 on hand. Dickinson spent $216.44 out of his own pocket, and as of Thursday, he had outstanding expenses of $263.
By the July reporting period we had recorded $10,107.20 on hand. Over these past three months we have been able to bring in $12,025.22 in additional contributions thanks to your support. I have just about $3,000 of my own money into the campaign and I plan to continue to personally fund about 10 percent of all the expenses. In the past three months, the campaign has spent $9,281.97, leaving us with $12,850.45. (I presently have about $1,595.60 in outstanding expenses).
In total, our campaign has brought in $28,294.79 to date; that is only possible because of all of you. Thank you.
As I mentioned – as much as I hate to keep going on about it, we need more help.
If you can make an additional donation please do so:
Donations: Jason Zandri for Mayor Committee
c/o 23 Cardinal Drive
Wallingford CT 06492
I would much prefer that you come and make a donation, have some food, and spend some time with friends so rather than just considering cutting a check please think about possibly attending one or both of the upcoming fundraisers:
DINNER FUNDRAISER at the Wallingford Portuguese Club
51 SOUTH COLONY ROAD WALLINGFORD
SATURDAY OCTOBER 19, 2013 at 7PM
Pork Loin, Baked Chicken, Seafood Rice, Oven Roasted Potatoes, Salad and Rolls
Dessert and Cash Bar
Dinner cost - $25.00 donation
Please make all checks out to “Jason Zandri for Mayor Committee”
LUNCH FUNDRAISER at the Zandri’s Stillwood Inn
1074 SOUTH COLONY ROAD WALLINGFORD
SUNDAY OCTOBER 27, 2013 at 12:30PM
Scheduled Special Guest
Third District Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro
Lunch cost - $25.00 donation
Please make all checks out to “Jason Zandri for Mayor Committee”
Once again – thank you for all the help and support; I am going to get this done and it will because of the support from all of you.
Thank you
Save the dates – the final two campaign fundraisers are set for Saturday October 19th and Sunday October 27th.
The Saturday October 19th event will be a dinner held at the Portuguese Club at 51 South Colony Road at 7PM.
The Sunday October 27th event will be a brunch held at the Stillwood Inn at 1074 South Colony Road at 10AM.
While we are still working our efforts of getting donations in through calls and emails to supporters, these social events are our best draws to make large headway into our mailer and newspaper advertising campaign expenses that we are budgeting to get the information out to the voters so that they understand more of what is going on in their town and allow them to make informed decisions on how they want to be governed for the next two years.
If you’re doing any planning and budgeting with respect to which social events you’re able to attend over the next few weeks please keep these dates in mind – we’d love to see you at one or both as your budget allows.
Thank you for all your support to date and over the next few weeks on the road to November 5th.
I cannot express my thanks or gratitude to all the attendees enough; it was an awesome evening with Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman in attendance as our special guest.
Connecticut State Comptroller Kevin Lembo also was there as was former Secretary of the State of Connecticut Susan Bysiewicz.
An additional thank you to 85th Assembly District State Representative Mary Mushinsky and 90th Assembly District State Representative Mary Fritz who both served as hosts to the event.
A representative from Congresswoman Rosa Delauro’s office also came in support of the event as the Congresswoman was out of the state.
A representative from Congressman Chris Murphy's office also contacted us regarding support for the campaign.
Former 87th Assembly District State Representative Steve Fontana was also in attendance.
The Democratic slate of candidates for Town Council as well as the Board of Education were all represented via attendance at the event as well.
In a few days I’ll have some candid photos online courtesy of Christy Mitchell Photography, our event photographer.
There’s also more news and information to come – stay tuned.
Special Guest
Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman
Paid for by Jason Zandri for Mayor Committee, Nicole Consiglio, Treasurer
Approved by Jason Zandri, Candidate for Mayor of Wallingford
The first formal fundraiser of the campaign was a complete success with over 200 tickets sold and about 150 people in attendance despite the threat of foul weather.
Attorney General George Jepsen was in attendance and kicked off a short support speech for the attendees at Gouveia Vineyards this evening.
Former Connecticut Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz was also on hand to speak and offer her support to the campaign.
We know the weather kept some additional folks that wanted to come at home but we will be having additional events in the summer after the Fireworks are fully fundraised for the 2013 celebration.
We’ll keep you posted.
In the meantime, those of you interested in mailing in a donation can do so by making your donation and sending it to:
”Jason Zandri for Mayor Committee”
c/o 23 Cardinal Drive
Wallingford CT 06492
Thanks again to everyone that donated to date and who were able to come tonight and offer additional support of both time and money.
I’m looking forward to working with you on the campaign over the next few months on the road to November.
