With less than a month before City Council elections, Mary-Ann Baldwin leads fundraising in the at-large race for City Council, Eugene Weeks is on top in District C and Randall Stagner holds a small lead in District A.<\/p>\n
In the 2009 council elections, every candidate who raised the most money was the top vote getter, with the exception of one (Thomas Crowder, District D), according to campaign finance reports.<\/p>\n
In this year\u2019s race for the two at-large council seats, the two incumbents are the top fundraisers in the first set of campaign financial disclosures to come in for the 2011 election. Baldwin amassed $30,945, Russ Stephenson raised $20,247, and newcomer Paul Fitts brought in $10,632.<\/p>\n
In District C, appointed councilor Eugene Weeks leads the pack in fundraising. His campaign netted more than $10,000 in this election cycle. Corey Branch has raised the second most with more than $2,000.<\/p>\n
Weeks and Branch are trailed by Sheila Jones who raised more than $1,500 and Racquel Williams, who herself contributed more than $1,000 to her campaign, has brought in a meager $65 in outside donations.<\/p>\n
The fifth candidate, Paul Terrell, has submitted a \u201cCertification of Threshold.\u201d It means that he will raise no more than $1,000 and is relinquished from the responsibility of filing financial disclosures.<\/p>\n
In District A, Randall Stagner is inching out Gale McKoy Wilkins. He has raised more than $6,000 while Wilkins has raised $5,350. However, Stagner has personally loaned $15,000 to his campaign, giving him a significant spending advantage.<\/p>\n
He has outspent Wilkins $9,017 to $1,623.<\/p>\n
Of the three candidates who are running unopposed, one collected an impressive figure in the last 35-day reporting period this election season. Bonner Gaylor of District E raised $7,155 while District D\u2019s Thomas Crowder managed just $1,350 and District B\u2019s John Odom just $725.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fundraising is one measure used to gauge support for candidates. We take a look at the 35-day campaign finance reports in the City Council race to see whose raising the most money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[214,15,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}