30 day campaign finance reports – HISD

The next round of finance reports for the November elections are available now, so let’s take a look at them, beginning with HISD. Here are the July reports for comparison.

Gretchen Himsl
Monica Flores Richart
Elizabeth Santos

Carlos Perrett
Jesse Rodriguez
Rodolfo Reyes
Sergio Lira

Kara DeRocha
Sean Cheben
Sue Deigaard
Sue Shafer

Holly Flynn Vilaseca
Daniel Albert
Robert Lundin

Anne Sung
John Luman

Wanda Adams
Karla Brown
Gerry Monroe


Dist  Name             Raised    Spent    Loans   On Hand
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I     Himsl            14,805   16,822      500    14,514
I     Flores Richart    5,005    7,946   17,197    13,298
I     Santos           12,538    7,363        0    10,584

III   Perrett           1,250        0        0         0
III   Rodriguez         4,601    1,738        0     3,296
III   Reyes             1,650    1,550      900         0
III   Lira              1,645    1,512        0       138

V     DeRocha           1,935    3,856        0         0
V     Cheben            5,900    5,332    4,200     3,385
V     Deigaard         13,361    9,995        0    25,192
V     Shafer            1,275    6,391        0     1,382

VI    Vilaseca         18,210   12,019        0    11,651
VI    Albert              750   10,965   30,000    19,784
VI    Lundin           13,675    6,665        0    18,925

VII   Sung             12,597   24,563        0    31,245
VII   Luman            17,125    5,352      500    10,221

IX    Adams            23,075    6,627        0    18,317
IX    Brown             3,150    1,771        0     1,379
IX    Monroe              900      900        0         0

Observations:

– Some candidates had not officially entered the race as of June 30, so not all of them have July reports. Only candidates on the ballot are required to post 30 day reports, so incumbents who are not up till 2019 do not have these.

– My general assumption is that people who post a zero or a blank for the Cash On Hand total have filled the form out incorrectly. I don’t know why this happens.

– There are no great surprises in these numbers. Harvey obviously had a dampening effect on fundraising overall, but it’s hard to say what we might have seen if everything had been normal. Maybe in a different year with no city races more money flows to school board candidates because it has to go somewhere, or maybe it doesn’t because those races just aren’t as interesting to the masses.

– Neither Wanda Adams nor John Luman had any fundraising activity to speak of in the July report. Both seem to be engaged in a more expected fashion now. I still have no explanation for their earlier reports, especially Adams’.

– It’s better to have a strong cash position than not, but we are rapidly approaching a point where money has diminishing returns. Some people have already voted, via mail. Others will have voted by the time your ad or mailer or robocall reaches them. Either empty your coffers right now, or commit to a possibly risky strategy of saving a few bucks for a runoff.

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3 Responses to 30 day campaign finance reports – HISD

  1. Elizabeth says:

    Hi there. For some reason Elizabeth Santos campaign finance reports related to income appears to be duplicates of the same page. Can this be corrected?

  2. Elizabeth – Thanks for the catch. There’s a corrected report, which I have now posted.

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