Today I accomplished my first real intern task, compiling campaign contributions for the major races for the election. I even used Excel!
Here you go, buddies:
Democratic Governor
Kitzhaber out-raised Bradbury by $912,000, impressive because Bradbury raised only $515,000.
Republican Governor
Both of the big guys raised over a million, but Dudley raised $1.67 million compared to Alley’s measly $1.03 million. We’re predicting Alley will overcome Dudley in a last-minute push.
Metro President
Rex Burkholder out-raised his rivals by various strides, raising $419,000 to Bob Stacey’s $311,000 and Tom Hughes’s $117,000.
Portland City Commissioner Position 3
There are a lot of people running for this, so I’m just going to put up a graph. Oh, and the numbers don’t seem to include public money (of which Jesse Cornett got $150,000), only private donations. Saltzman chose to limit his donations to $150,000.
- Angela Webber in Excel
- Good for you, Dan!
Just to be clear, $100,000 of the Burkholder money is a LOAN from his wife – dropped in at the last moment. The Stacey money is raised from over 1,000 smaller donors.
Rex should definitely get the Bike Vote- he was at Filmed by Bike and playing his uke at Sunday Parkways.
Nevertheless, I voted for Stacey. Sorry, Rex.
Fuck, Rex plays a ukelele? I wish I could take back my vote for him.
I voted Stacey. Rex likes the CRC. BOOOO!!!
I disagree that Rex pulls the bike vote. He championed a transportation plan that increases GHG emissions by 50%, whereas Stacey has worked on environmental, land-use, and transportation issues for 30 yrs. Plus, Rex likes the CRC. BOOOO!!!
I saw Bob Stacey this morning on the Hawthorne bridge while I was waving a sign for Mary Volm.
Mary and I had a great conversation with him at his kickoff party… granted Mary knew a lot of what he was saying because they worked at the city together.
Rex is a good guy as well.
At times like this I wish we had instant runoff voting.