The budget for Jonathan Lee's campaign to become next mayor of Jackson has officially topped $400,000 since the start of 2013.
In a report filed Tuesday, May 14, 2013, with the City Clerk's office, the treasurer for Jonathan Lee's political action committee "Friends of Jonathan Lee" says the Lee campaign raised $66,459 since April 11, putting his calendar year-to-date total at $401,019.12.
The report says Lee has also spent $372, 762.08 total, and $65,815.41 of it since April 11, 2013.
The report, which you can read http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/documents/2013/may/14/jonathan-lee-runoff-report/">here, shows that Lee received several large donations in the past month, including a $2,500 donation from Guy H. White of Ridgeland and a $2,000 donation from Emmerson Asset Management, LLC. He also received $1,000 donations from The District Land Development Company, Bennchmark Construction Corp., Fondren Place Apartments LLC, Integrated Management Services and private citizens Susan McNease of Jackson, Steven Speights of Jackson, Samuel Lane of Jackson and Deshun Martin of Jackson.
Lee's opponent in the May 21 runoff, Ward 2 Councilman Chokwe Lumumba, also filed http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/documents/2013/may/14/chokwe-lumumbas-runoff-report/">his report on time (yay!). His report indicates that his campaign has just topped the $100,000-mark, year-to-date, with $31,957 of that coming after April 11, 2013.
Lumumba has received large contributions in the past month, including a $5,000 from Adekuule Adekuubi (trust me, we are digging trying to figure out who these people are), $2,000 from Burk-Kleinpeter Inc. (an engineering company out of Baton Rouge, La.), $1,500 from himself, $1,300 from New England Contractors LLC (a Jackson business) and $1,000 donations from Adam Shakoor of Detroit, Mich., Herbert Irvin of Jackson, Mississippi Boys Hoops Inc. of Jackson, attorney John Walker of Jackson, J&J Wholesale of Clinton and attorney Winston Thompson of Jackson.
Ward 4 City Council hopeful http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/documents/2013/may/14/dekeither-stamps-cfr-51413/">De'Keither Stamps also filed a report, which you can read here.
Stamps report says he received a total of $4,940 between April 28 and May 11, 2013, from himself, coffee roastery engineer Nikdra Ford and Honeysucker and Honeysucker Inc. He spent $1,931 at A2Z Printing, and split the rest of his spending between Wal Mart, Raceway, Spaceage Marketing and Printing and Poll Watchers. He reports $277 cash-on-hand.
See, it's not hard to follow the law.
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tyler.cleveland 10 years, 11 months ago
UPDATE: None of Chokwe's contributors in this list show up in any of our searches for past political contributions. It is notable that some of Lumumba's donors do not list addresses, with "none given" or "N/A" in the space where the addresses are supposed to be.
On the other hand, Lee's $2,500 donor Guy White of Ridgeland, president of his family business White Construction Company, popped up in a search as having given $7,500 to the Republican Senatorial Committee in 2012 and $4,600 to another Republican, Florida State Senate President Mike Haridopolis, in his bid to unseat U.S. Senator Bill Nelson in a Republican primary last year.
The others are mixed. Samuel Lane gave $250 to Mitt Romney in 2012, but Susan McNese gave $1,000 to the Democratic Party of Mississippi and Madison lawyer Deshun Martin gave $1,000 to Barack Obama and $500 to U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson in 2012.
donnaladd 10 years, 11 months ago
All, go to the JFP Documents Morgue to see PDFs of all the campaign-finance reports filed to date for Jackson elections this year, as well as many other interesting documents: http://www.jfp.ms/documents">jfp.ms/documents.