Of all the candidates running for local seats, Noah Mills is winning the money game.
According to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance, Mills, running for District 5 magistrate, has raised $19,575, according to his most recent report filed with the KREF on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, in the heated county judge-executive race, Republican candidate Timmy Dunn has out-raised Democrat Les Jenkins-Mackey.
Dunn reported raising $14,280.91. Dunn has spent $13,400.14 as of Oct. 4, according to the KREF site. Jenkins-Mackey has $11,056.85 in his coffers as of the Oct. 13 report. And up to the Oct. 4 end of the 30-day period, he’d spent $4,522.16.
As of the posting of this article on Wednesday morning, both have yet to file their 15-day pre-election report, which is due today.
Ashley Hampton, running for 1st Division district judge, has reported a total of $9,989.62; according to KREF records, all of it came from her own donations to her campaign.
Meanwhile, Hampton’s opponent, Lindsey Noller Turner, has filed that she expects to raise more than $5,000 and as of Wednesday has listed on the KREF site a total of $550 raised, which was collected during the spring primary season. She has reported no receipts on either the 60-day pre-election report or the 30-day pre-election reports. She has not filed the 15-day pre-election report as of this posting.
Henderson candidates running for statewide seats have out-raised candidates for local offices. According to the KREF, Robby Mills’ total campaign receipts amount to $95,877.36. Much of that, however, is leftover money from previous campaigns.
Robby Mills’ 30-day pre-election report shows that he has raised $25,700 before the end of that filing period with $23,700 coming from political action committees, including $3,500 from the Kentucky Association Of Health Care Facilities PAC and $3,500 from the Kentucky Hospital Association, among others.
J.T. Payne, running for Dist. 11 state representative, has total campaign receipts of $85,715.65. His expenses through the end of the 15-day pre-election filing period were $18,961.34. He has also received money from PACs, totaling $7,850, including a $2,200 donation from Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 633 Political Action Committee and a $250 donation from Next Era Energy. Like Mills, most of Payne’s receipts for this campaign are leftover from a previous campaign.
Mills’ write-in opponent, Jayna Russelburg, filed a statement of spending intent that she would raise more than $5,000, but the only report on the KREF site, the 60-day pre election report, shows that she had not raised any money at that time.
Janelle Rowena Glass, running against Payne, has a total of $4,437.15 and has spent $3,920.14, according to the KREF site.
Of the candidates running for the Henderson City Commission, only Tom Williams filed a statement of spending intent that said he expects to raise and/or spend more than $5,000. According to Williams’ 15-day pre-election report, which he filed on Oct. 19, he has raised $1,392 and spent $521.06.
Magisterial candidates Jon Douglas and J.R. Stanley in District 1; Rachel Bray and Tim Southard in District 3; Kevin Morgan and Butch Puttman in District 4; and Bill Starks in District 5 all filed statements of spending intent that they would raise and/or spend less than $5,000, according to the KREF site.
In the spring primary season, Morgan raised $1,103.14 and Stanley raised $2,856.00, the KREF site said.
In the jailer race, write-in challenger Chris Grillon has raised $1,715.00 and spent $1,450.26, according to her 30-day pre-election report.
Anthony Willett filed a statement of intent that he did not expect to raise more than $5,000 for the general election, but that filing occurred on June 15 before Grillon had filed to be a write-in candidate and when there wasn’t yet opposition. During the spring primary, Willett raised $16,693.01 and spent $16,595.18.
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