Updated – Philly candidates show us the money

Democratic Council at-large candidate Sherrie Cohen, daughter of the late Councilman David Cohen has done a fair job of raising money for her campaign. She’s raised over $122,000 since January 1st, and has $74,503 on hand as of her campaign filing last week.

I mention this prominently because in my haste to post as many candidates’ campaign filings last Friday as possible, I made a clerical error and understated Cohen’s efforts.

It’s an uphill battle to run citywide and unseat one of the five incumbent at-large Democrats, but Cohen is making a credible run at it. Challenger Andy Toy’s numbers are also updated on the chart below – he’s raised an impressive $253,000 and shows $137,000 on hand. Ed Nesmith has also raised a healthy sum, much of it from himself.

One of the most striking things in the campaign finance filings is the potent effort being waged by electricians’ union leader John Dougherty. Local 98’s political director Bobby Henon is running for the 6th district seat being vacated by Northeast Philadelphia Councilwoman Joan Krajewski, and he raised an eye-popping $632,000, far more than any other contender for a City Council seat.

But Dougherty’s efforts aren’t limited to Henon’s race. As a team of Inquirer reporters noted Saturday, the union has contributed at least $10,000 to four other Council hopefuls. They include incumbents Bill Green and Bill Greenlee, and challengers Mark Squilla and Dan Savage.

The chart below shows several missing entries, where candidates’ reports didn’t come in to the city commissioners’ office Friday and couldn’t be found in online filings.

Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown appears to be the only Council incumbent that missed the filing deadline. Her office promises the report will be in today. I’ll post the numbers when I get them. We also now have the campaign finance report for Karen Brown, the candidate backed by the Republican party leadership for mayor. She shows a paltry $552 on hand as she faces self-described libertarian John Featherman for the GOP mayoral nomination. She’ll be relying on the strength of the Republican organization. Featherman managed to raise $5,500 and showed about $1,100 on hand in Friday’s filing.

The reports show several candidates contributed significant sums to their own campaigns. The most striking is Howard Treatman, a political novice from Germantown who’s running one of the best-financed Council campaigns in the city, practically all of it from his own pocket.

Treatman, who’s a real estate developer, has loaned his campaign $200,000 (the last $50,000 came after May 2nd, so it’s not included in the totals below).

Others who put significant sums into their own efforts are 8th district candidate Cindy Bass, who put $50,000 into her own campaign, and Democratic at-large hopeful Ed Nesmith, who put $100,000 into his efforts.

The amounts in the chart below show money raised and spent between January 1st and May 2nd. A few candidates raised money before Jan. 1st, and those receipts aren’t reflected here. I’ll update the chart as more information becomes available.

Many of these reports and more detail are available on the website of the city’s Department of Records.

MAYORAL CANDIDATES – Democrats

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
Michael Nutter	$805,338	$774,367	$1,279,936	0
Milton Street	0	0	0	0

MAYORAL CANDIDATES – Republicans

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
John Featherman	$5,500	$$5,531	$1,090	0
Karen Brown	$3,360	$2,907	$552	1,813

CITY COUNCIL – DISTRICT CANDIDATES (Democrat unless otherwise noted)

1st District

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
Vern Anastasio	$94,814	$64,865	$29,463	0
Joe Grace	$78,529	$63,276	$36,894	0
Jeff Hornstein	$101,586	$61,380	$40,205	0
Mark Squilla	$231,665	$163,314	$68,350	$10,500

2nd District

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
Barbara Capozzi	$170,852	$116,669	$54,181	$90,101
Tracey Gordon	$450	$325	$125	0
Kenyatta Johnson	$43,128	$22,922	$21,146	$15,000
Damon K. Roberts
Ivan Cohen (R)

3rd District

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
Jannie Blackwell	$82,850	$90,594	$44,211	0

4th District

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
Curtis Jones	$15,565	$9,555	0

5th District

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
Darrell Clarke	$132,262	$105,888	0
Suzanne Cam	$3,705	$1,139	0

6th District

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
Martin Bednarek	$135,595	$127,343	$58,551	0
Bob Henon	$624,925	$480,579	$144,345	$30,128
Sandra Stewart (R)

7th District

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
Maria Quinones-Sanchez	$215,365	$91,941	$143,333	$45,491
Daniel Savage	$97,565	$59,022	$65,038	0

8th District

Candidate	Raised since Jan.1	Amount spent	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
Cindy Bass	$139,092	$85,521	$124,688	$50,000
Bill Durham	$1,650	$1,638	$11	0
Andrew Lofton	$1,460	$1,250	$209	0
Greg Paulmier	$16,163	$16,263	$39,000	0
Robin Tasco	$3,280	$2,661	$668	$0
Howard Treatman	$167,334	$116,443	$50,889	$149,486
Verna Tyler	$14,023	$12,210	$9,439	0

9th District

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
Bobby Curry
Marian Tasco	$74,208	$89,772	$112,179	0
Lamont Thomas

10th District

Candidates	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
Brian O’Neill (R)	$75,640	$7,385	$247,542	$0
Bill Rubin	$65,412	$12,908	$62,397	0

CITY COUNCIL at-large Candidates – Democrats

Candidates	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
Ralph P. Blakney	$9,523	$3,463	$6,059	$1,568
Lawrence Clark	$200	$1,373	$2,996	$496
Sherrie Cohen	$122,494	$89,793	$74,503	$30,000
Bill Green	$253,325	$194,755	$255,752	$0
William Greenlee	$77,108	$87,584	$58,177	$25,00
Wilson Goode, Jr.	$39,000	$113,703	$11,647	$85,000
Michael Jones
James Kenney	$96,850	$112,049	$26,902
Janis E. Manson	$500	$127	$498	$0
Edward Nesmith	$132,868	$0	$132,868	$100,000
Humberto Perez
Blondell Reynolds Brown
Isaiah Thomas	$6,840	$5,710	$1,130	$0
Andy Toy	$253,220	$144,390	$137,115	0

CITY COUNCIL at-large Candidates – Republicans

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash in hand	Unpaid debts
Malcolm Lazin
Joe McColgan	$6,460	$5,419	$1,040	$2,500
Elmer Money	$50	$0	$68	0
David Oh	$56,176	$43,914	$38,973	0
Dennis O’Brien	$60,032	$29,113	$30,919
Steve Odabashian	$2,480	$0	$2,480	-0
Frank Rizzo Jr.	$83,833	$10,385	$83,994	0
Al Taubenberger	$22,624	$26,745	$11,413	0
Michael Untermeyer	$61,791	$21,232	$40,559	$60,000

CITY COMMISSIONER CANDIDATES – Democrat

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash in hand	Unpaid debts
Anthony Clark	less that $250	less than $250	$0
Stephanie Singer	$110,260	$73,291	$52,668	0
Ivy Staten	$15,530	$16,739	$1,816	0
Marge Tartaglione	$10,700	0	$43,829	0
Michael Edward Bell	$7,535	$3,906	$3,628	0
Bernard Talmadge
Warren Bloom

CITY COMMISSIONER CANDIDATES – Republican

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash in hand	Unpaid debts
Marie Delany
Joseph Duda	$21,800	$2,104	$30,426	$10,000
Al Schmidt	$57,503	$44,703	$34,747	0

CANDIDATES FOR SHERIFF – (Democrat unless otherwise noted)

Candidate	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash in hand	Unpaid debts
John Kromer	$44,000	$40,615	$10,684	$8,900
Jacque Whaumbush
Jewell Williams	$61,874	$44,152	$17,721	0
Joshua West (R)	$200	$100	$100	0

CANDIDATES FOR REGISTER OF WILLS

Candidates	Raised since Jan. 1	Amount spent	Cash on hand	Unpaid debts
Ronald Donatucci (D)	$86,921	$55,346	$29,260	0
Linda Bateman (R)