The Other Money
A lot attention was raised this weekend on how much money was raised by Republican Greg Ballard and Democrat Melina Kennedy in the race for Indianapolis Mayor. However, there wasn’t much reporting on how much the political parties raised nor individual City-County Councilors.
I decided to spend some time this weekend looking through reports and publish what I found. It was interesting to see the incumbent Councilor who raised the most money this period was Republican Mike McQuillen of District 12 who reported raising more than $70,000 for the period (including $22,000 to start). His opponent, Regina Marsh reported raising $13,000.
I am reporting only those candidates who raised more than $10,000 for their races. The first number is what they raised for the period, including what they started the reporting period with. The second number is the cash on hand. An asterisk notes an incumbent. All numbers are rounded.
- Kostas Poulakidas – $93,000/ $63,200.
- Mike McQuillen* – $70,000 / $18,300.
- Ed Coleman* – $66,000 / $10,700.
- Ryan Vaughn* – $57,000 / $16,000
- Zach Adamson – $42,000 / $13,000
- Angel Rivera* – $30,000 / $6,000
- Aaron Freeman* – $27,000 / $911.00
- Christine Scales* – $25,000 / $19,000
- Jeff Miller – $25,000 / $8,300
- Marilyn Pfisterer* – $25,000 / $16,000
- John Barth – $24,000 / $3,100
- Jack Sandlin* – $24,000 / $7,000
- Ginnie Cain* – $22,000 / $3,000
- Vop Osili – $20,000 / $6,200
- Bob Lutz* – $19,000 / $3,900
- Leroy Robinson – $18,600 / $2,700
- Janice McHenry* – $17,000 /$4,000
- Barb Malone *- $16,000 / $3,800
- Dane Mahern* – $15,000 / $10,000
- Susan Blair – $14,000 / $2,500
- Brian Mahern* – $13,000 / $9,300
- Regina Marsh – $13,000 / $7,66
- Maggie Lewis* – $12,000/ $5,500
- Anthony Simon – $12,000/ $247.00
- Monroe Gray* – $11,000/ $5,000
- Susie Day* – $11,000 / $359.00
- Mary Moriarty Adams* – $10,000 / $10,000
- Pam Hickman – $10,000/ $3,300
- Len Farber – $10,000 / (-900.00)
Note, Coleman is not running for re-election at-large but against Republican Jack Sandlin. He also received more than $50,000 from the National Libertarian Party.
Overall, the Marion County Republicans reported raising about $900,000 through their various organizations and having about $190,000 in cash on hand. Democrats reported raising about $720,000 and having about $180,000 in cash on hand.
