Here's a postscript to a story I wrote back in February.

At the time, Republican congressional candidate Dean Scontras was more than five months late in filing a mandatory financial disclosure statement with the House Ethics Committee in Washington, D.C. Scontras said the delay was an oversight. He vowed to file the report soon.

A short time later, Scontras did file the report. A few days ago, my colleague in Washington, Jonathan Kaplan, picked up a copy.

The report shows that Scontras had assets worth more than $954,442 on July 31, 2007, making him the wealthiest of the eight Democrats and Republicans who are running for Congress from Maine's 1st District. More than half of the money that Scontras reported, $578,744, was invested in stocks.

Scontras, a political newcomer who lives in Eliot, is running against Charlie Summers of Scarborough in the June 10 Republican primary. A key factor in the race could be how much of his own money Scontras is willing to spend.

Scontras' most recent filing with the Federal Election Commission showed that he loaned $27,300 to his campaign by the end of 2007. The next filing is due Tuesday.

Back in February, Scontras said that he did not plan to spend more of his own money to finance his campaign. "I don't think we'll have to," he said.

Scontras, a 1991 graduate of the University of Maine, made his money during a career in the high-tech industry. According to a resume posted on his campaign's Web site, Scontras held jobs with nine companies between 1992 and 2007, often in sales positions.

– Kevin Wack

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