Joan Nixon, coordinator of the Davidson County Election Commission, just confirmed to me that the English Only Committee missed the Financial Disclosure deadline, which was 5:00 PM today.
UPDATE: On the other hand, the group opposing English Only, Nashville For All of Us, has released their numbers in all their glory – they’ve raised $286,000 so far and have about $120,000 on hand. Their donor list includes some heavy hitters:
HCA ($50,000)
Steve Turner from Market Street Investments, the company leading the redevelopment of The Gulch ($50,000)
Caterpillar Financial ($25,000)
Rogers Group Investments President Ben Rechter ($25,000)
Ingram Industries ($25,000)
Law firm Bass Barry & Sims ($10,000)
Vanderbilt University ($10,000)
Gaylord Entertainment ($10,000)
Cal Turner Jr. ($10,000)
Venture capitalist Andrew Byrd with Andrew Byrd LLC ($10,000)
Healthways Chairman Tom Cigarran ($10,000)
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis ($10,000)
Bill Freeman of Freeman Webb Real Estate ($10,000)
Again, not releasing their numbers makes the English Only committee look like they have something to hide. Like, perhaps, that they have no local support or coalition backing them and that the money supporting what they say is a referendum that will benefit Nashville is really coming from an out of town group.
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