WinRed, the GOP's answer to ActBlue, still hasn't filed a January '21 report w the FEC. Other campaign committees managed by treasurer, Ben Otthenhoff & his partner, Caleb Crosby, have though. List of committees they managed in the '19-'20 election cycle.... 
...Julie Dozier & Janna Rutland are friends/relatives of Caleb Crosby who all live in a Birmingham AL suburb. Neither Dozier or Rutland is a lawyer or a CPA. First came across Dozier's name in connection w Rick Scott's New Republican PAC....
...Odd. The Peachtree PAC, registered w the FEC on Nov 6 '20, hasn't filed a statement of organization yet although Julie Dozier, treasurer, filed a Filing Frequency Notice on Nov 9 '20. Peachtree PAC contributions totaled $38m in Dec '20, all from the Senate Leadership Fund....
...While Julia Dozier, Peachtree PAC treasurer, hasn't filed a Jan '21 report w the FEC yet, the PAC did buy $69k in insurance coverage from Crosby & Otthenhoff's firm, Three Arbor Insurance, in Dec '20...
...Downloaded the details of the Peachtree Dec '20 PAC's independent expenditures. I'm not an expert re FEC reporting so I don't understand why the summary states $37m in total independent expenditures while the raw data shows $47m...
...If someone could explain why there appear to be duplicate expenditures in the downloaded Peachtree PAC independent expenditures data, I would very much appreciate it. I sorted the data by expenditure description & file number to show where I'm stuck..
...Still trying to figure out why the downloaded Dec '20 Peachtree PAC independent expenditure data doesn't match up w the financial summary. Here's the data sorted by transaction i.d. number. No duplicates....
...Here's another question. Are media placement purchases generally split evenly between opposed & supported candidates as the Peachtree PAC did?
...One questions answered about the Peachtree PAC answered & I learned something new about FEC filings to boot. $9.5 million recorded as disbursements was replaced by $1.2 in disbursements on Dec 22 '20....
...If you look at 24/48 hour reports on the PAC's FEC website, you'll see two listed as "past version" & replaced with "current version." The two past versions show the $9.5m in disbursements I couldn't reconcile....
...Not sure how two Dec '17 disbursements of $4.8 million each were recorded on Dec 22 & the same day, Julie Dozier, treasurer, realized she made a mistake & recorded two $623k disbursements instead....
...Speaking of Julie Dozier, Peachtree PAC treasurer who works for Caleb Crosby & Ben Ottenhoff, she registered the Peachtree PAC on Nov 6 '20 w a postal center in Greensboro GA. I guess the idea was to mask who was really behind the Peachtree PAC..
...Here is my revised Excel spreadsheet showing how the Peachtree PAC spent almost $38 million on independent expenditures in Dec '20, almost all of which was paid to a single vendor for "media placement"...
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