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CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLYPERSON NOREEN MARIE EVANS
This section is for contributors surnamed "Evans" except the candidate, Noreen Marie Evans. There are two: Robert "Bob" Evans of Sebastopol, and Mrs. Marie Evans of Middletown. We did not find records showing receipt by them of funds from the Evans campaign committee (although we found records showing that the candidate's husband Mark and son Joel received funds from the Evans campaign committee). Robert Evans and Marie Evans are not necessarily related to the candidate, each other, or anyone else named at this website.
Robert may possibly be:
ROBERT G. EVANS. Born Oct 1936, 1065 SAINT HELENA AVE (a dead end street west of Gravenstein Highway South), SEBASTOPOL, CA 95472-4438.
Marie may possibly be:
MARIE A. EVANS. Born 1935, 18776 N. Shore Dr. (near a pond and Marine View Road), Middletown, CA 95467-8629 (not zip code 63431), (707) 987-2515.
An independent payor (FIREFIGHTERS, TEACHERS, NURSES, AND CONSUMER ATTORNEYS, 1262667, SACRAMENTO, CA 95833) in February 2004 paid roughly $150,000 to help get Evans elected to the assembly. The independent payor seems to have terminated all activities several months later. The independent payor's money was not paid to her campaign committee. Exactly how did the payor use the money to help get her elected? One entry is: 2/9/2004, WIGGINS, LETTER/MAILING, $19,883.91". We think, but are not certain, that the payor spent money to mail a pro-Evans letter written by Wiggins. Why did Patricia Wiggins write a pro-Evans letter (assuming we're right in our belief that Wiggins did)? We don't know why. However, Evans donated to Wiggins for Assembly in 2001 and 2003, and Evans's assembly campaign committee donated to Friends of Pat Wiggins (Patricia Wiggins's senate campaign committee) in 2005. Incidentally, Sean MacNeil, Evans's chief of staff on 18 October 2005, was chief of Staff for former assembly member Patricia Wiggins. Also, Evans's senior consultant Anthony Matthews (does she have a junior consultant?) previously worked for Wiggins. Also, Evans's field representative David Green previously worked for Wiggins.
We don't know who ran the independent payor in Sacramento, why it helped her, where it got its money, or why it seems to have terminated all activities several months after helping her. The independent payor's phone number then was (916) 921-9111.
By the way, the Evans campaign committee paid a vendor with a similar name, and the same zip code, for campaign literature and mailings, as described in the discussion of her campaign committee expenditures, elsewhere on this webpage.
Her campaign committee spent money.
Her committee paid over $264,000 in this category.
The biggest payee in this category was a San Francisco firm (BARNES MOSHER WHITEHURST LAUTER & PARTNERS, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105). The same firm was also the biggest payee in the campaign literature and mailings category, described elsewhere in this Evans campaign committee expenditure section; and this firm was also paid in the paraphernalia category.
Her committee paid, among others, the following people as campaign consultants:
The Evans campaign committee also paid Emerson's business: CK CONSULTING,, SACRAMENTO, CA 95814; $1,112.10; payment date 5/2/2005; paid by EVANS FOR ASSEMBLY, FRIENDS OF NOREEN, ID#1255628, SANTA ROSA, CA 95404; for period 1/1/2005 - 6/30/2005; for Fundraising events; total $1,112.10.
Emerson may possibly have lived at:
CONNIE J. EMERSON, born 1962, 13 COLBY CT., SACRAMENTO, CA 95825-7005, (916) 925-8nnn;
Connie Emerson, 409 42ND ST., SACRAMENTO, CA 95819-2816, (916) 456-4097;
Emerson, Connie Sanders;
11/10/2003; $250.00;
Sacramento, CA 95819;
Lanahan and Reilley/"Attorney"; [Contribution]
CLARK FOR PRESIDENT INC.
As far as we know, no one named "Connie Sanders Emerson" seems to have been admitted to the California bar, and no one with that name seems to be a Lanahan and Reilly attorney today (17 October 2005). According to state and federal political contributions Emerson made in 2002, 2003, and 2004, she seems then to have have been a consultant, a self-employed consultant, and a managing partner of (according to former URL sacramento.judysbook.com/investment-management-services/78766/CK_Consulting.htm) CK Consulting.
Guy R. Conner (not Guy Connor, who is described above) is married to Patricia A. Wiggins, who represented the assembly district that Evans now (March 2006) represents. Connor is a self-employed consultant. Conner is a software engineer. Guy Connor and Guy R. Conner both are in Santa Rosa 95401.
Evans's committee paid $2681.00 for "campaign consultants" to "EVANS-FUDEM JOEL MR.,, SANTA ROSA, CA 95404". Her campaign committee paid a few thousand dollars to her son for "campaign consultants", assuming that we correctly understand her campaign finance records. We do not know if Evans-Fudem charged his mother his usual fee. We did not find "campaign consultants" Joel Evans-Fudem in any directories of campaign conultants. His zip code seems to be his parents' home's zip code. We do not know if campaign contributors were told that campaign funds had been paid, or would be paid, to the candidate's child. At the time that the Evans campaign paid campign consultant Joel, he sems to have been (according to the June 2005 high school commencement speech page at Evans's assembly website) a student at OVHS (Orchard View High School, from which he graduated on 7 June 2005). It is rare for a high school student to be paid money as a campign consultant. OVHS is for students who "... work in a home study environment ..."). The school is chartered by Twin Hills Union district. The district headquarters and the school have the same address: 700 Water Trough (on some Web maps it may be "Watertrough") Road (south of Starlight Road), Sebastopol, CA 95472-3917. OVHS seems to be for students who receive at least some of their high school education at home rather than exclusively in school. OVHS seems to help parents teach their children at home, as nearly as we can tell. The school offers parents a wide selection of textbooks and other educational materials. Some students learn nothing on the school's premises, and some students learn only some subjects. If a student's parents want him to get all of his instruction on school premises, the school would suggest sending him to a conventional high school, we guess. Keeping in mind how much time it often takes to teach a student a high school education at home, we don't know how Joel's parents (one, a legislator; the other, an administrative law judge) found the time to do their jobs. Furthermore, Mark Fudem, the boy's father, is an administrative law judge employed full-time by the state government of California. We guess that he was unavailable Monday through Friday during business hours to teach the boy a high school education and supervise him. His mother was a legislator, a lawyer, and a political candidate. We guess that either she didn't spend much time teaching Joel a high school education or she didn't spend much time working as a legislator and lawyer. Did his campoaign consultant work interfere with his high school education or homework, or was it part of his instruction or homework?
Joel Evans-Fudem had a different name when he was born: FUDEM, JOEL R; born 06/10/1987; MALE; mother's surname EVANS; born in SONOMA county. We don't know when Joel R. Fudem became Joel Evans-Fudem. We don't know how his name appears on his high school diploma, driver license or other licenses, college identification, Selective Service System (military) registration, income tax returns, paychecks from employers, checks from other clients, and bank records.
On about 24 October 2009, we found on the Web, in PDF file 2004_evans_460_0930.pdf, the following, campaign finance information about Joel, information which may describe a consultant payment to him in 2004.
We guess that he lived with his parents and that his office, if any, was in their home. Therefore, we guess that his parents live at the same address: 539 Benton, Santa Rosa, CA 95404. We have no idea how the $588.50 was computed. Because it ends in ".50" (fifty cents), it seems unlikely that the payment is entirely a fee for his expert services rendered. As far as we know, he was an independent contractor, not an employee. Therefore, how did his payment become $588.50 (a sum which is not an even number of dollars)? What is the hourly fee which results in a bill of $588.50? For example, if he billed his mother $200.00 hourly, how would his fee be $588.50 (with emphasis on the fifty cents part of the payment)? Is some of the $588.50 reimbursement for expenses? If so, what were the expenses for which his mother's campaign reimbursed him?Page 40 SCHEDULE E (CONT.) Schedule E (Continuation Sheet) Payments Made NAME OF FILER Ms. Noreen Evans, Friends of Noreen Evans for Assembly I.D. NUMBER 1255628 Otherwise, describe the payment. RAD radio airtime and production costs RFD returned contributions SAL campaign workers salaries TEL t.v. or cable airtime and production costs TRC candidate travel, lodging and meals (explain) TRS staff/spouse travel, lodging and meals (explain) TSF transfer between committees of the same candidate/sponsor VOT voter registration WEB information technology costs (internal, e-mail) NAME AND ADDRESS OF PAYEE OR CREDITOR (IFCOMMITrEE,ALSOENTERLO.NUMBER CODE OR DESCRIPTION OF PAYMENT AMOUNT PAID Mr. Joel Evans-Fudem 539 Benton Santa Rosa, CA 95404 CNS [consultant?] 588.50
Was there a written contract between consultant Joel and his client (or employer?) Noreen? Did Joel send written bills and statements? Did Joel have a bank account then? What bills did he pay in the course of working as a consultant? Did his consultanting work interfere with his homework or other, high school activities?
In any event, Noreen Evans seems to have daughters. We don't know if they, like their brother Joel Evans-Fudem, are campaign consultants who were paid by a campaign committee. If they were paid by a campaign committee, maybe their last names were not "Fudem" on any campaign finance disclosures. The daughters, according to what seem to be their birth records, are:
In the 2004 Democratic primary for district 7 of the state assembly, Noreen Evans ("Councilwoman/Mother/Attorney") ran against Jim Leddy ("Santa Rosa School Board Member"). Notice that Evans explicitly campaigned as a mother. Characterizing herself as a mother seems to be a continuing, central stategy of hers. For example, on her state asssembly website, she named her children, mentioned her son's high school graduation ceeremony, and supplied the full text of the speech she gave at that ceremony. In the speech, she mentioned her son's sisters (her daughters). Because she keeps reminding us of her children, and because at least one of them was paid by campaign funds, it seems appropriate to find out about those children.
We don't know if Noreen's mother is, like Joel, a campaign consultant or was paid by a campaign committee. As far as we know, Noreen's mother's last name (possibly a maiden name) was Ash.
We don't know if any of Noreen's siblings are, like Joel, campaign consultant or were paid by a campaign committee; if so, they may, like Joel, have been paid under a name other than the one on their birth records. As nearly as we can tell, her siblings's birth data may possibly be:
Some campaign funds seem to have been paid to, or because of expenses of, Noreen's husband. Moreover, if a politician hires her teenage son as a campaign consultant, pays him a few thousand dollars with campaign funds, and lists him (on a campaign finance disclosure) with a name other than the one on his birth certificate, she should expect attention to him and to her other, close elatives.
Evans was on the Santa Rosa (Sonoma county, California) city council before she ran for the state assembly. It would be interesting to examine itemized, financial records of her pre-assembly (for example, city council) campaigns to see, among other things, who was paid by her campaign committees, who contributed, and exactly what campaign expenses there were. We are not expert in the filing requirements for such records. Summary reports (not itemized reports) for Sonoma county supervisor and Santa Rosa city council committees may have been filed with the Santa Rosa city government. Some itemized records may be available to the public at the California Secretary of State Cal-Acess website for supervisor (EVANS FOR SUPERVISOR, FRIENDS OF NOREEN (state ID# 990057); CURRENT STATUS: ACTIVE) and city council (EVANS FOR CITY COUNCIL 2000, FRIENDS OF NOREEN (state ID# 1225836); CURRENT STATUS: TERMINATED 12/31/2004).
By the way, according to statements by Noreen Evans and her campaign committee: Noreens's last name is Evans, her husband Mark's last name is Fudem, and her son Joel's last name is Evans-Fudem. It's an unusual man whose last name is neither his mother's nor his father's.
On 17 October 2005, there is one item in this category:
payee VISA in HENDERSON Nevada 89016; $207.00; payment date 10/11/2003; EVANS FOR ASSEMBLY, FRIENDS OF NOREEN, ID#1255628, SANTA ROSA, CA 95404; period covered 10/1/2003 to 12/31/2003.
A "payee" is the one who is paid. Often, the payee of a Visa credit card bill is a bank (and the ultimate payee often is a merchant), not Visa. It seems unlikely that the committee paid Visa. Henderson town is near Las Vegas. Henderson and Las Vegas are both in Clark county. Incidentally, one of Evans's campaign consultants was Connie Emerson, and someone with that name wrote The Cheapskate's Guide to Las Vegas: Hotels, Gambling, Food, Shows, and More. In general, Henderson hotels charge a less than Las Vegas hotels.
This payment raises a question of whether, if the campaign committee pays a credit card bill, the committee is required to dislcose the name of the ultimate payee (often a merchant) or of the credit card's issuer (often a bank).
As nearly as we can tell, Henderson seems to have no human or business named Visa.
STEVEN RABINOWITSH contributed money to Evans's assembly campaign. Someone named STEVEN RABINOWITSH seemingly lived in Las Vegas: STEVEN RABINOWITSH, 4033 CHARLESTON BLVD (04/07/2004), LAS VEGAS, NV 89102.
Small world department: we think that, by coincidence, federal, appellate judge Jay Bybee lives in Henderson.
Her campaign committee paid over $141,000 in this category, which should not be confused with postage or paraphernalia categories.
There was one payee (FIREFIGHTERS PRINT & DESIGN,, SACRAMENTO, CA 95833) with a name similar to, and a zip code identical to, an indepedent payor described elsewhere on this webpage (FIREFIGHTERS, TEACHERS, NURSES, AND CONSUMER ATTORNEYS, 1262667, SACRAMENTO, CA 95833).
The bigest payee in this category was a San Francisco vendor (BARNES MOSHER WHITEHURST LAUTER & PARTNERS,, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105), which her committee paid over $125,000. This firm was also paid in other categories (for example: the campaign consultants category, described elsewhere on this webpage, the staff travel category, and the paraphernalia category).
10 November 2005.
It seems unlikely that the Evans campaign had no employees; however, nothing is listed under "campaign workers salaries". Maybe the Evans campaign committee characterized employees, if it had any, as something else (for example, independent contractors). In general, this practice (characterizing an employee as an indepedent contractor) is usually done for at least one of two reasons: to save on bookkeeping expenses (some tiny businesses are so short of money that they can't afford to pay for much bookkeeping) and to evade taxes. The Evans campaign spent over $26,000 on professional expenses, which is defined to include accounting and legal, so there seems to have been plenty of money to pay for enough bookkeeping to calculate the correct amounts of paychecks and deductions. We tentativley conclude that, if the Evans committee had employees and characterized them as something other than employees, the main motive might possibly have been to evade taxes.
How can we identify which people, if any, were Evans campaign employees? A few clues might be that:
The Evans campaign committee made payments without explaining the purpose ("no description code provided" payments, in the parlance of the California Secretary of State, which maintains the Cal-Access website). These payments were made to various payees on various dates. The disclosures of these payments are scattered among other disclosures, making it extremely time-consuming to study them. We do not have the time to search for all such payments, and we did not do so. We do not know the total amount of money the campaign committee paid without disclosing the payments' purposes.
The candidate (EVANS NOREEN,, SANTA ROSA, CA 95404) and her husbnad (FUDEM MARK MR.,, SANTA ROSA, CA 95404) in total got over $2500.00 without any explanation of the payments' purposes. Those two people are not the only recipients of campaign committee payments made without disclosure of payments' purposes. For example, Evans's committee paid UMP (UNITED MILEAGE PLUS,, PALATINE, IL 60094) a total of $6,609.43 in various payments (according to the Cal-Access website on17 October 2005). UMP provides bonuses to United Airlines passengers (for example, free upgrades), sells miles, and provides a UMP Visa credit card.
We do not know what percent of the committee's total payments comprise payments made without disclosure of their purpose.
If we assume that the committee's money is her personal property, it is not surprising that committee payments are made without disclosing the payments' purposes. After all, she has the right to pay her money to anyone she wants without explaining why to the government or anyone else. If we assume that the committee's money is not her personal property, it is surprising that committee payments are made (for example, to her and her husband) without disclosing the payments' purposes.
To see payments made without disclosed purpose, go to the California secretary of state's Cal-Access, campaign finance, database website's expenditure code search webpage, go to the expenditure code pulldown menu (near the top of the page), click "any" (the bottom item on that menu), type "noreen evans" in the "Filer Name" field, then click the "Search" button near the bottom of the page. You will then see a webpage with a table in which each row is one expenditure. The rows are in alphabetical order by payee's name. The right-most column provides the expenditure code (the committee's purpose of payment). For some payments, the campaign committee did not provide an expenditue code (in other words, did not disclose the payment's purpose); for example, a payment to Noreen Evans on 15 May 2005.
Noreen Evans belongs to the California legislature's joint legislative ethics committee. We guess that this committee does not do much. The Evans ethics assignment says much about the California state legisalture.
Evans may live at: ... SANTA ROSA, CA 95404, (707). To find from this website where she lives, check the address information for her husband, WCAB (state workers compensation) administrative law judge Mark A. Fudem, who is listed in this website.
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