Peter Schorsch
Incumbent Rick Kriseman and challenger Rick Baker both enjoyed strong fundraising efforts over the last two weeks, the latest campaign finance reports show.
Candidates for St. Petersburg Mayor and City Council faced a July 28 deadline for filing reports showing finance activity from July 8 through July 21.
Kriseman’s report showed that he raised $25,401 in that period, while Baker raised $30,919.
Baker has finally nosed ahead of Kriseman in terms of how much money each candidates has raised for their campaign. Overall, Baker is at $355,490, while Kriseman is at 352,124.
With the primary election less than four weeks away, both men spent heavily over the last two weeks.
Kriseman spent $54,073, leaving him with approximately $71,000 in his account. Baker spent $50,347, giving him almost $152,000 cash-on-hand.
These numbers reflect only what the candidate’s campaigns raised; details about what their political committees brought in are reported on a separate timeline.
Among the notables donating to Kriseman’s campaign are Will Jordan, Roy Glass, Suzanne and Roger Perry, Dale Swope, and TECO Energy.
The campaign’s largest check was to CounterPoint LLC, which handles media placement.
Noteworthy checks to Baker came from Tom Boland, Al Bonati, Charles Rivers Properties, Lucas Higman, John Stoner, and Dick Tobias.
Also running for mayor are Paul Congemi, Jesse Nevel, Anthony Cates and Theresa Lassiter.
With $3,345 raised over the last two weeks, Nevel enjoyed one of his best fundraising efforts and is now over $10K raised for his insurgent campaign.
The primary election is August 29.
One comment
Christopher M. Kennard
August 1, 2017 at 8:58 pm
I am not surprised that Jesse Nevel, a Green Party candidate, is doing well enough to note inclusion of his insurgent candidacy for Mayor of St. Pete, given the positions and issues he has taken on a number of important matters St. Pete voters face today.
Supporting the right of Florida voters to decide themselves whether or not to approve legalizing cannabis via a state constitutional amendment ballot initiative RIGHT OF ADULTS TO CANNABIS [Serial # 15-20] and changing other destructive laws whose origins, like the Prohibition of Marijuana in 1937, were partially based upon greed and partially racist based in nature, is a solid reason why the Green Party and Mr. Nevel are gaining ground in the St. Pete political arena.
It is also no surprise that many corporations may not be too eager to see a new American patriot or strong political party that spurns political slush funds arise on the scene. PAC’s secret flow of slush funds seek to buy our elections just as the major political parties and outside parties all vie to do in order to control the outcome of our national and state elections.
Jesse Nevel would be an attractive candidate for office in many communities nowadays, as the political tides reverse course and instead of being divided and alienated from one another, voters begin to work together, by-passing partisan driven politicians blocking the way to progress.
Legalizing cannabis; medicinal use of cannabis and ending the destructive drug war against the American people are issues that brings a wide assortment of voters to work together to end the prohibition of cannabis in 2018.
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