Tim Smith has nothing to hide in his campaign finance reports and is proud of the fact that he limits contributions to $25 per person -- something he started doing in his first campaign in 1997**. Jim Naugle, however, produces reports that are full of chicken-scratch with barely-legible names of $250 contributors. We'll let you figure out why. (Tip: In this sample section of Naugle's report there are three contributions from Huizengas.) It was Tim who proposed campaign finance reform that limits contributions to $250 -- half of what the limit used to be.

**When Tim first ran for Commissioner in 1997, he put a $25 limit on donations to his campaign [see 1997 news story]. Meanwhile his opponent outspent him by tens of thousands of dollars. Tim won the primary by four votes! After that close call, Tim challenged his opponent to limit the size of campaign contributions for the General Election [see 1997 news story].His opponent refused. With the closeness of his primary victory in mind, Tim felt compelled to level the playing field somewhat and began to accept $100 contributions for that election only. In the end, Tim was outspent by 5 to 1 ... and won!!! On the Commission, Tim fought for campaign finance reform [see 2000 news story] and succeeded in having the maximum amount of contributions cut in half, to $250. Today he accepts contributions of just $25 (with few exceptions -- see chart).