It's time to show you the money. The campaign finance reports are in and John Horhn has raised over $350,000 in his mayoral campaign. However, his opponent, Rodney Depriest, raised over a respectable $82,000 as well. Of course, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has not filed his report that was due April 15. Some animals are more equal than others.
Check out the reports posted below.
Rodney DePriest
John Horhn
Zachary Servis
Tomorrow: Ward 1
Saturday: Ward 7
Don't worry, JJ submitted a public records request for the reports so they can be posted in a much easier to read pdf format.
16 comments:
Considering how much $$$ Barksdale has dumped into Horhn's campaign you can bet your last dollar that his publication will never cast a critical journo and/or investigative eye on Horhn during his term as Mayor.
Hey Anna, big Daddy just bought you access. It will be almost as good as leaked documents and emails.
Just in case some of you green teeth dont get the reference All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others - Animal Farm
How long will it be before ALL candidates refuse to file reports? After all, if one is getting away with not filing a report why not everyone?
Wow, I thought it was from War & Peace.
They'll only file if elected and only before the next qualifying deadline. Our Legislature is a party to the scam since they refuse to mandate real transparency with real non-performance penalties to the process.
Obviously, Chokwe belives he is above the law.
When a candidate raises that much money there are some donors who expect a ROI.
@12:24 and they will surely receive it.
At the very least, Mr. DePriest and/or his staff have excellent organizational skills. That's worth a vote in this city for sure.
Rodney Depriest for Mayor!! Maybe we can finally have a decent airport or roads or wait for it ...zoo
To those voters who think the COJ is on the verge of having a conservative Mayor-THINK AGAIN ! You can tell that just by viewing the names of some of the people and entities making campaign contributions
Hopefully the sort of valid comments and observations your culling now will be approved after the election.
Oh, good grief. Don't y'all worry about Antard. He'll have plenty of time to get 'er done - somewhere between 78 and 120 months - right after the sentencing.
All of this finance reporting is great - I love the fact that KF is a hawk on it. There is a place for that and I hope that KF never stops. That said though - I also believe it to be true that was most people want is somebody who cares about the city. The city over themselves, the city over their interest. That is what people want, and a really solid litmus test for who meets that standard is somebody who cares enough to file the required campaign finance reports on time. So for all of y'all who want to dog KF as picking low hanging fruit - that's fine go ahead - but what's really happening is he has a journalistic way of showing who cares and who doesn't.
Wards Wrecker Service trying to elevate their rotation status with City of Jackson. Interesting.
Would be great if someone would compile copies of how much $ our locate representatives and senators (at least in the tri-county area) have in their political chest and also who they have given some $ too. I’ve looked into accts of 3 of them as they can be seen on-line for free. Folks would be a little surprised where some of their $ has gone.
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