Rounding out the top five recipients of the PAC's largesse were City Council member Margaret Chin,
running for re-election to represent Lower Manhattan, including Soho and Chinatown, with $ 121,108; Alan Maisel,
running for a seat in South Brooklyn
covering Sheepshead Bay and Canarsie, with $ 120,451; and Paul Vallone, an attorney
running in a
crowded contest
for a seat in northeastern Queens, including Bayside and Whitestone,
for whom the PAC has spent $ 113,134.
As a small company, the project team did not have the additional funds necessary to apply
for and administrate the certification process but were able to
run a successful
crowd - funding campaign to
cover the costs.