{"id":89,"date":"2025-08-19T20:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisward6.com\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2025-09-21T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:45:26","slug":"donate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chrisward6.com\/?page_id=89","title":{"rendered":"Donate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Getting the word out unfortunately costs money &#8211; lawn signs, literature, event food, mailings&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately Northampton has a city ordinance which halves Massachusetts donation limits, putting the emphasis on modest donations from ordinary people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contribution rules for Northampton Municipal Elections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maximum donation $500 in a calendar year\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Even small donations are welcome!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Limit is per person and applies separately to spouses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Must be at least 18 years of age<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card) &#8211; this is Federal Law<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Must be physically present in the US when making a donation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Must be making a donation from ones own funds not those provided by another<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Donations from corporations are prohibited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently my committee is only able to accept donations by check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please make checks payable to: <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-custom-p-286-color\">Committee to Elect Chris Stratton<\/mark> and mail to 25 Redford Drive Florence, MA 01062<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please include a note with your legal <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-custom-p-286-color\">name and address, as well as occupation, and employer<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub>(Occupation\/Employer information is required when donations total more than $200 in a year)<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further Campaign Finance Regulations: <a href=\"https:\/\/ecode360.com\/30118084#30122330\">City of Northampton<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ocpf.us\">State of Massachusetts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting the word out unfortunately costs money &#8211; lawn signs, literature, event food, mailings&#8230; Fortunately Northampton has a city ordinance which halves Massachusetts donation limits, putting the emphasis on modest donations from ordinary people. Contribution rules for Northampton Municipal Elections Currently my committee is only able to accept donations by check. Please make checks payable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-89","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisward6.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisward6.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisward6.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisward6.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisward6.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chrisward6.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/chrisward6.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisward6.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}