Does Henry Whitehorn Not Need Funding?
So I got to looking at Henry C. Whitehorn Jr.'s campaign filing report for-- Wait, wait, wait. Senior, senior, excuse me, excuse me. Yeah, I know Henry Whitehorn Jr., nice guy. Nice guy. Could we go to church together? And we've had-- had some very nice conversations, but he doesn't have any campaign filing. - Nevertheless, Whitehorn's campaign filing report for October 30th through December the 15th. Okay, you ready?
- I'm ready. - It shows no receipts, no revenue whatsoever. - And? - He's brought in no money is what you're saying.
- Apparently not. - And? Okay, it shows no expenditures No expenses from October 30th to December the 15th for the campaign.
Wait, how can that be? He was in court cases. It's as if all activity for the campaign stopped effectively ceased as of October the 30th So the funds only wait wait wait not even not even through November 18th because the run -in was November 18th November the 18th.
No, that was yeah, that was the runoff. Yes So you're saying he did no political activity financially speaking From the for the first two weeks of November when that was the last two weeks of the election Just looking at the campaign finance reports now comparatively speaking now at the end of the period This was the end of December the 15th the period ending to the 15th, the funds on hand were fifty thousand six hundred and fifty two dollars and nineteen cents. I mean I still got a lot of money to run a reelection, to run the campaign for the, because we've got another campaign coming up, another election coming up, March 23rd, that's, you know, that's still money to get through a shares race in Caddo Parish. Absolutely. Now, comparatively, from September the 25th to October the 25th, we've got a lot of money he had raised $37 ,000. Okay. $37 ,000. That's pretty good, man. That's pretty good. Well, and I can understand why he didn't continue raising money after the November 18th runoff because he thought he had won.
I don't understand why he didn't declare that he spent any money after the end of October because there was still a campaign going. you're saying the last two weeks There was still a runoff.
There's still the runoff going on through the 18th and then even after that He had all the court cases and those those were expensive He so he didn't have to pay any of the lawyers apparently not He didn't have to pay anybody for the campaign just to keep the campaign going I mean even poll even poll watchers or sign holders, you know that are you know waving signs at intersections I don't know maybe didn't have any any of those Maybe he didn't have any folks walking the neighborhood. Okay, but anyway going back if you compare That period the period ending December the 15th to the period ending October 29th Uh -huh.
He spent forty two thousand dollars, right? That's what I'm saying that there was a lot of money to be spent there So why didn't he spend any? After the end of October so here what he's showing I don't understand he's showing that he has the same amount of money on hand yes at the end of October 29 that he still has now that he still has now okay just or that he had it excuse me at the end of the period of the reporting period December the 15th that's odd okay so do you have John Nicholson's numbers I don't have John's numbers I mean they look relatively-- - I mean, I would just-- - They look normal, I should say. - I mean, I would just say, look, did-- - There are expenditures, there are-- - Did John spend any money after October 29th? - Oh yeah, he's got expenses that he's listed.
I mean, it looks like a normal finance report for a campaign that is still engaged. So I don't know. - I'm really confused, I don't understand. I don't understand this.
How did he not spend any money? How did he not, I mean, I guess I can understand how he didn't bring in any money. If you think, look, the campaign's over, I've won. I don't need to bring in any more money.
Okay, but look, you've got the, you know you've got these court cases going on. You know that's gonna be expensive. It's why John Nicholson sent Henry Whitehorn a letter the week after the election saying, why don't you just go ahead and join me in asking the court to just go ahead and nullify me?
This rather than an expensive court battle that the two of us would have to pay for with our campaign funds? Instead of an expensive court battle, why don't we just go ahead and say,
"Yep, one vote is not okay when you have two people voting on the same day. Yep, that's illegal, so we just need to redo it." Why don't we just go ahead and skip to the end here and not spend the money? So, obviously, there was money that was spent. Okay, here's another other question if Henry Whitehorne's not the one his campaign is not the one who paid for the attorneys Who paid for the attorneys?
You'd have to ask Henry C. Whitehorne senior I mean, I just don't understand how it is that Whitehorne's campaign finance documents show that he has neither raised a dime Nor spent one I can since October the 30th.
I I can understand how you would say he wouldn't he hasn't raised a dime okay maybe and you shut the campaign thing down because you thought the election was over or maybe I can understand that but how do you not spend anything or you know he knows that he's got another election coming up in March maybe he was strategizing but maybe he was planning maybe he was organizing his campaign marketing and media purchases in
what surely will be be a very ugly market to buy from with the next election just over two months away, but still he hasn't raised or spent a single red cent since October 30th,
how is that? - Okay, but even if he didn't pay for the attorneys, maybe the attorneys said, you know what, we're just gonna donate our fee. Well, then that's a campaign donation from the attorneys.
If somebody else comes in and says, you know what, chief, we believe in you. "We think you're the sheriff. "We're gonna pay for your attorney's fees." That's a campaign donation.
- And we just got a text in on our text line. By the way, it's the greatest text line in all of talk radio. - 1 -866 -AGR -1776. - And one listener texted in and said, "I saw people with t -shirts." -shirts and signs at several polls on the general election day. Well, maybe he paid for those t -shirts before October 29th.
That's possible He might have paid for those t -shirts for the for the election in early October. That's I mean, it's possible I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt here. I know but look I just don't understand But we know from court filings that white horn is being represented by the law offices of all Gray Sexton and Carl H. Franklin. So who paid for them? Are we to presume that these prestigious attorneys are working for free? I mean, or do they have some sort of deferred billing agreement with Whitehorn and they aren't billing him regularly for some sort of deferred billing?
I don't know. That's a possibility too. That maybe he hasn't paid the attorney's fees yet, which is why he doesn't have to record it on his. his campaign page. Maybe that's what's going on,
that's a possibility. But look, if you're someone-- But how many attorneys do you know who work a case where there's not gonna be like a financial settlement and they work it for free? How many attorneys do you know who do that?
I mean, there's some people that contribute their time. Okay, but if you're-- But if you're doing that pro bono for a political campaign, that's a campaign donation. Well, it's an in -kind contribution. and it has to be listed on your finance reports but has to be here's the thing and a lot of folks say why are you making such a big deal about this because whoever's gonna be our sheriff needs to be honest and ethical well no but it that when you're looking at finance reports and you're talking about being the sheriff of cattle parish and managing a budget of over forty million dollars filling out a very simple campaign finance report yeah it can it can be two pages.
I mean, that becomes an issue.Welcome back to American Ground Radio, I'm Stephen Parr with Louis R. Avallone. I mean, I just, again, I'm just perplexed. How does a whitehorn campaign not raise a dime, not spend a dime, since October the 30th? That doesn't make any sense to me. because it's maybe they didn't have any expenses because they'd already paid for their TV ads up front or maybe they'd already placed their digital ads and paid for that up front.
Maybe they had already printed all their signs and so they didn't have any expenses for that two week period at the end of October through the election on the 18th two and a half week period but but during this time through December the 15th,
you didn't raise any money. No one contributed, no one cut a check to you. - Maybe they didn't raise any money because they thought the election was over and he said, "Hey, I'm already the sheriff," but you had the court cases.
And that incurred a cost one way or another. There was a cost that was incurred. There were the court cases challenging the validity of the election. And chief... chief whitehorn's attorneys he had his attorneys in the case attorneys one aren't cheap and two aren't free not the good ones at least if they are well okay maybe his word free um if they if they are if they are free then they're donating their times and services to a campaign which means it has to be registered as an in kind contribution as an in kind contribution - But also rent has to be, as far as where your campaign headquarters. - I mean, did he shut down his campaign headquarters before the 18th?
Sources:
https://www.ethics.la.gov/CampaignFinanceSearch/ShowEForm.aspx?ReportID=117589
https://eap.ethics.la.gov/CFSearch/LA-116611.pdf
https://eap.ethics.la.gov/CFSearch/LA-113110.pdf
https://www.ksla.com/2023/12/04/deadline-approaching-whitehorn-file-response-brief/