O’Garro Raised Money for 2011 Cloud Campaign.

Beleaguered Hartford insurance agent Earl O’Garro raised money for City Treasurer Adam Cloud’s 2011 campaign for a full term. Campaign finance report in the Hartford City Clerk’s office reveal that O’Garro donated $250 to the Committee to Elect Cloud for Treasurer on September 6, 2011. The contribution, the maximum allowed under campaign finance laws, was made by a credit/debit card and appears not to be associated with a fundraising event.

The future Mrs. O’Garro, Kendra Smith, listed as a homemaker, also donated $250 by credit/debit card on the same date. Pauline O’Garro of Enfield donated $250 by personal check on September 9th.  On the same day, Patricia O’Garro-Ellis also made a maximum contribution of $250 by personal check to Cloud’s campaign. One wonders what their interest in Cloud’s campaign was.

WNPR’s Jeff Cohen has yet to get a an answer to an essential question: How well do Adam Cloud and Earl O’Garro know each other? Well enough to have booked in the same New York hotel room in 2012. Well enough for O’Garro and company to have contributed more than 13% of the donations Cloud collected for his campaign in the reporting period of September 2011.

The story continues.