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ASUO Executives-elect Sam Dotters-Katz and Johnny Delashaw raised and spent far more money than their opponents during primary week, including purchasing $2,490 worth of pizza.

Campaign expenditure forms show the campaign raised $271.73 selling slices of pizza for 25 cents each. That would equal roughly 1,087 slices of pizza sold, but Delashaw said some people voluntarily paid as much as $1 for a slice.

The Oregon Action Team candidates raised an estimated $9,680. Kari Herinckx and Jesse Hough of Rock the Yellow raised an estimated $3,625.

Both teams spent most of their respective coffers during primary week. Matt Rose, campaign manager for Herinckx and Hough, said the campaign had about $210 left at the end of the week.

Delashaw said his campaign had less than $400 at the end of last week. "We pretty much went all out during the primaries," he said.

That included spending $778.76 on "trailer supplies," defined by Delashaw as materials to sustain volunteers and hang fliers around campus, including bottles of water, staplers, tape, beef jerky, green tea and gummy bears.

Three banners - a five foot, a 10 foot and a 15 foot - cost Oregon Action Team about $470.

The campaign spent $919 on a domain name and Web site development, $178 on Facebook ads and $1,203 on printing fliers and other materials.

Most of the printing was done at Kinko's, but $470 went to a Web site called Nitroprint.com.

Herinckx and Hough spent just under $400 at Kinko's.

T-shirts have always been a staple of campus campaigns, and this year was no different. Oregon Action Team spent $2,368 on shirts from Northwest Sleevewear.

Rock the Yellow spent $1,846 on shirts from two local businesses. Rose said the campaign purchased 460 t-shirts and received donations for 430 of them during the primaries.

ASUO elections rules bar campaigns from giving away t-shirts for free, so the campaign collected donations ranging from a penny to $20. Cimmeron Gillespie donated 7 cents for his t-shirt, after donating $500 to the campaign, the maximum allowed under election rules.

Delashaw donated $500 to his campaign and Dotters-Katz donated $219. Herinckx and Hough did not donate any funds to their own campaign, according to the contribution forms.

Oregon Action Team's donations from family members dwarfed those given to Rock the Yellow. Donations from persons with the last name Dotters, Katz and Delashaw totaled $2,625. For Rock the Yellow, donations from those with the last names Herinckx and Hough totaled $500.

Oregon Action Team candidates donated more than $400 to the campaign. Rock the Yellow candidates are not listed as giving financial contributions beyond donations for t-shirts, the largest of which came from Carina Miller, who paid $20.

Rock the Yellow spent $40 on Little Caesar's for campaign volunteers. Oregon Action Team spent $43 on Papa John's for volunteers and $83 for a candidate meeting at Cabo Grill.

Both campaigns are continuing through this week's general election with the remaining funds and will file another round of contributions and expenditures forms on Friday.

A grievance filed Monday by Rose asked the ASUO Constitution Court to order a run-off election including all executive candidates because of alleged breaches of election rules on the part of Oregon Action Team.

Should the court agree to new elections, Delashaw said his campaign "would be in big trouble in terms of donations."

"I could go back and try to find other people to give donations," he said. "I'd spend the entire weekend trying to scrounge up whatever we could."

The campaign still has fliers, banners and other supplies if the election were to continue.

"Our campaign will be significantly reduced" if another primary is held, Delashaw said.

rdandrea@dailyemerald.com

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