Some interesting figures emerge from a review of House District 37 campaign finance statements now on-line at www.mi.gov/sos:
- Vicki Barnett reported 260 contributions pre-primary; Welday reported 224.
- Each has received more than 40 contributions from Political Action Committees, “Leadership” committees and candidate or party related committees.
- They’re about even when it comes to total out-of-district contributions – Welday has 148, Barnett 143. Welday has the higher share, 66% to 55%.
- Barnett has almost twice as many individual contributions from within the district: 113 to Welday’s 62. (I didn’t weed out the duplicates for either one, there didn’t seem to be that many.)
- The expenditures are interesting. Barnett’s campaign has paid only one out-of-state vendor, AT&T, for office phones. Welday spent $2,164 with a printing company in Wisconsin, $684 with a telemarketing company in Arlington, Virginia, $450 to a New Jersey company for a voter list, $303 to an Ohio printing firm and $300 to a San Diego California company for a Web data base.
- Welday ended the pre-general election cycle with $40,242.03 and $21,955.08 in campaign debt (including quite a bit unsettled from the primary) - leaving him a little over $18,000 free in the last 10 days before the election. He has also taken in about $7,500 in late contributions. Barnett has a balance of $55,122.64 and no campaign debt at all. She has taken in about $6,700 in late contributions.
Cumulative totals for this election, including the primary (Welday’s was contested):
Barnett
Total contributions – $120,292.86
Total expenditures – $ 65,270.22
Welday
Total contributions – $151,721.00
Total expenditures – $111,478.97
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