Gahan's first quarter CFA-4 has been filed, and it's another massive, quivering edifice of pay-to-play cash.

There is another $21,460 in the bank for Dear Leader, a full 35% of it coming from a $7,500 honker of a donation from Jorge Lanz -- this time skulking behind a different corporate alias.

Added together with his de facto city department (Jacobi Toombs & Lanz), this pushes Lanz over the $40,000 mark in lifetime pay-to-play love offerings to Gahan, eclipsing Clark Dietz's previous first-place total.

In fact, many of the heavy hitters are absent from Gahan's first quarter report, which points to two conclusions.

1. With $128,000 already in hand at the beginning of the year, Gahan had enough cash to absorb $40,000 in expenditures from January through March (only $16,000 net expenditures).

2. Gahan has been sufficiently untroubled by his opponent David White to allow his heaviest donors to keep counting spare change in preparation for the generl election in November.

Gahan's expenditures include a whopping $13,550 to EMC Research, located far outside the city limits in Columbus, Ohio.

Note the scratching of backs: Gahan gave $3,000 to ProMedia, which promptly returned $1,000 of it.

We'll be back when there is time to further analyze the numbers, but the conclusion is obvious: Gahan's pay-to-play campaign finance Shop-Vac is alive and well.

The Jeff Gahan Money Machine, Part 7: Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz, or the anatomy of $33,225 "Big Daddy Dollars" since 2011.

Previously: The Jeff Gahan Money Machine, Part 6: GM Development, yet another economic development consultancy from afar.

Some people browse antique shops for fun, but during the coming weeks we'll be plucking highlights from eight years of the Committee to Elect Gahan's CFA-4 campaign finance reports. Strap in, folks -- and don't forget those air(head) sickness bags.

It's an unexpected state-of-roadway-emergency and your City Hall team needs to spend $400,000 for repairs right away without any type of messy bidding processes.

Who you gonna call? Why, Lanzbusters -- of course.

Meet Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz, the firm that does a little bit of everything. Here's an overview from the year 2012.

2012 Charlestown Road Signal Synchronization (Tom Schellenberg; RC)
2012 East Spring and Midtown spot sidewalk improvements (RC)
2012 Charlestown Road Improvements (several segments) (RC)
2012 Grant Line West Park/Reas Lane Extension (RC)
2012 Daisy Lane Phase Three Erosion Control
2012 Spring Street Hill Road
2012 Proposals for Engineering Services for FY 2012 CDBG Public Facilities Sidewalks

By the way, JTL "has a big role in the Summit Springs development." Never would have guessed that one, eh?

Buffalo Dis-Trace: White folks dress up like their bison-killing ancestors as we glance at Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz's big role in Gahan campaign finance.

@JTLengineering tweeted: JTL has a big role in the Summit Springs development in @NewAlbanyIN. We did the infrastructure design and designed the Daisy Lane extension. Our survey manager, Steve Marshall, joined in the fun to help unveil the buffalo stones celebrating the Buffalo Trace. #JTLengineering

Now, we have absolutely no reason to believe JTL performs any but the finest quality of work. In fact, our ongoing effort to calculate Jeff Gahan's eight-year haul of campaign finance money is not to be taken as a judgment on the tasks performed by any of these companies and individuals. That's for someone else at another time. Rather, the point is to see how much they continue donating to Dear Leader as pay-to-play ante for contracts.

Our Core Values

At Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors, our behavior and actions are guided by our vision for our company and values we possess.

Integrity
Community
Trust

And money. Lots and lots of it.

JACOBI, TOOMBS & LANZ
2011 250
2015 1,500
Total: $1,750 (two years)

JORGE LANZ
2018 4,250
2017 2,475
2015 2,500
2014 5,000
2013 1,000
2012 250
2011 1,750
Total: $17,225 (seven years)

MICHAEL HARRIS
2018 3,250
2016 2,500
Total: $5,750 (two years)

MARIA SUZANNE HARRIS (was/is secretary of the JTL incorporation)
2015 $1,000

BHL PROPERTIES
2017 $7,500

In essence, every last one of these dollars comes from outside New Albany city limits. The possible exception is BHL Properties, but that's just semantics, isn't it? The owners of BHL Properties do not live here, do they?

It can be exhausting following Jeff Gahan's money.

BHL Properties: Another way for Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz to send Jeff Gahan even more money.

It's been said that those who donate to campaigns are very different from the average voter.

This just might be the greatest "No Shit, Sherlock" statement ever. In New Albany, they're the literal difference between a slice of bologna and Filet Mignon. It doesn't have to be this way.

#FireGahan2019

Rebuttals are welcome and will be published unaltered -- so don't forget spellcheck. If you have supplementary information to offer about any of this, please let us know and we'll update the page. The preceding was gleaned entirely from public records, with the addresses of "individuals" removed.

Next: The Jeff Gahan Money Machine, Part 8: Our towing and recovery companies offer their tithes to Dear Leader.

BHL Properties: Another way for Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz to send Jeff Gahan even more money.

It kept nagging at me that I'd missed something while sorting through Mayor Jeff Gahan's bountiful ledger of 2017 campaign donations.

In fact, I had.

Three guesses as to where Harris is employed -- and the first two don't count.

We know already that Jorge Lanz/Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz act as consistent and reliable funnels for Gahan campaign cash.

Buffalo Dis-Trace: White folks dress up like their bison-killing ancestors as we glance at Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz's big role in Gahan campaign finance.

This one's from 2017.

These are from 2015 and 2014.

BHL Properties kicked a whopping $7,500 into Gahan's burgeoning re-election account last year.

Dude: $7,500 is enough money to buy exactly four of these advertisements (2015) in the News and Tribune.

I'm sure that's a coincidence ... right?

Buffalo Dis-Trace: White folks dress up like their bison-killing ancestors as we glance at Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz's big role in Gahan campaign finance.

Previously:

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Hill or valley? mural or statue? Bison or weasel? Evidently Team Gahan needs reinforcements.

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City Hall's Twitter feed is giddy.

@JTLengineering tweeted: JTL has a big role in the Summit Springs development in @NewAlbanyIN. We did the infrastructure design and designed the Daisy Lane extension. Our survey manager, Steve Marshall, joined in the fun to help unveil the buffalo stones celebrating the Buffalo Trace. #JTLengineering

As you've no doubt guessed, Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz also has a big role in Dear Leader's re-election campaign.

This one's from 2017.

These are from 2015 and 2014.

That's a lot of money for period costumes, don't you think? But wait -- the mayor wore a suit, just like always.

Let's hope Mrs. Dant Chesser used the occasion of an "art park" opening to remind attendees never to let their babies grow up to be humanities/arts majors.

"Kevin Hammersmith loved the local community and Floyd County Parks system."

At the amphitheater.

I'm a cynic by inclination and preference, but it doesn't preclude me from being happy that there's a park named for Kevin Hammersmith.

I'm also glad the county pushed and completed this project. If Gahan had gotten hold of it, the park probably would be called the Lanz Dome.

Give it up for Hammersmith ... gone far too soon.

A COMMUNITY EFFORT: Duke Energy volunteers, Mount Tabor students beautify Hammersmith Park in New Albany, by Chris Morris (Tom May Prays, We Pay Gazette)

NEW ALBANY — Kevin Hammersmith loved the local community and Floyd County Parks system. He was offered promotions from his employer, Duke Energy that would have taken him away from the area, his sister said, but he turned them all down. The reason: He didn't want to leave Floyd County.

That is why Hammersmith would have been thrilled with all the activity going on Monday morning at the Floyd County Parks newest property, which bears his name. Crews were busy putting the final touches on Kevin Hammersmith Memorial Park, including several volunteers with the Duke Energy Foundation teaming up with students from Mount Tabor Elementary School to construct rain and butterfly gardens. The volunteers also were planting trees along the park's main road.

Besides supplying much of the manpower, the Duke Energy Foundation donated $15,000 to the cause.

"He would be overwhelmed," said his sister, Tammy Persinger, who was among the many volunteers. "They [Duke] give back to the community is so many ways. We are fortunate to have a company like that in our area. Kevin loved working for Duke Energy. I don't know of anyone who loved their job as much as he did."