Interested in knowing which school committee candidate in a contested race raised only $350 while a different school committee candidate shelled out $3,200 on a campaign manager?!
Today is the day when all local candidates must file their final campaign finance reports prior to the Nov. 7 municipal election day. They are slowly being added to the city’s website here (scroll down about halfway). Check them out here, get out your calculators and let us know what you find of interest.
The YES campaign spent $32K just on pollsters and political consultants!
For some context – 1 in 8 Newton households survives on less than $25,000 in annual income.
WOW!
PS – I miss the days of door knocking and holding signs.
Thank you for posting these links. I found the material really interesting.
Who contributes to who’s campaign is of less interest to me than who contributes financially to ballot questions. I note with interest that real estate barons, high-end investment companies, major developers with deep pockets, former school committee members and a few people who post on this blog are willing to put TENS of thousands of dollars where their mouths and platitudes are. One would assume they’re doing this because they really believe in their cause.
I didn’t see too many of the people who “do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community” listed though. Guess their invitations to that party were lost.
FYI:
Candidates for office in a city or town (mayor, city council/alderman, school committee) file campaign finance reports with their local election officials (city or town clerk or election commission). The exceptions are:
Mayoral and City Council candidates in Boston, Brockton, Cambridge, Fall River, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, New Bedford, Newton, Quincy, Somerville, Springfield and Worcester. These candidates e-file with OCPF in the Depository reporting system.
https://www.ocpf.us/Filers/GettingStartedNonDepository?section=gsLocalOffices#undefined
Thanks for that MR.
So the reports for our mayor candidates can be viewed here and the general search is here.
What Mark said.
It’s worth everyones time to peruse Greg’s links to campaign financing. The YES campaign appears to be taking money from outside of Newton. Correct me if I misread that. It does lead me to wonder what vested interest an out of towner has in our charter vote.
Bridget Ray-Canada’s finance reports seem to be missing.