As I said yesterday, I’m not going to go through all of the city of Houston 8 day finance reports. I will however present the 8 day reports from the two area legislative special elections, as those races had such compressed time frames for raising money, as well as the large amounts of money being spent in the HD28 race. So, with that preamble, let’s have a look.
HD148
Michele Leal
Anna Eastman
Rob Block
Chris Watt
Kendra Yarbrough Camarena
Penny Shaw
Carol Denson
Adrian P. Garcia
Alva Trevino (30 day)
Lui La Rotta
Mia Mundy
Terah Isaacson
Chris Carmona
Ryan McConnico (30 day)
Dist Name Raised Spent Loans On Hand
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148 Leal 46,440 120,293 0 23,396
148 Eastman 56,926 60,224 0 15,258
148 Block 3,535 24,210 0 9,369
148 Watt 33,525 53,903 0 7,467
148 Camarena 64,734 27,816 10,000 7,868
148 Shaw 7,967 7,163 34,000 5,576
148 Denson 3,710 6,633 1,000 1,861
148 Garcia 5,400 0 0 5,400
148 Trevino
148 La Rotta 5,821 4,221 0 5,032
148 Mundy 2,101 1,278 0 2,116
148 Isaacson 1,750 2,000 0 3,555
148 Carmona 0 3,708 10,000 10,830
148 McConnico
Anna Nunez still has no finance reports filed. Alva Trevino’s most recent report showing was her 30 day report. All of Ryan McConnico’s reports claimed to be his January 2020 semi-annual, which I’m pretty sure was a screwup in the system, but be that as it may I didn’t see a report that covered the appropriate dates for an 8 day. About $40K of Kendra Yarbrough Camarena’s contributions were in kind, mostly listed as block-walking by labor groups. Not sure how you put a number on that, but there it is. Michele Leal is by far the biggest spender, though Anna Eastman and Chris Watt are both there as well. No one is squirreling anything away for the runoff, which makes sense since no one can feel comfortable about making the runoff. The funders who are keeping their powder dry will be there when we’re down to two candidates.
HD28
Anna Allred (PAC)
Gary Gates
Gary Hale
Tricia Krenek
Sarah Laningham (30 day)
Clinton Purnell (30 day)
Dist Name Raised Spent Loans On Hand
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28 Markowitz 294,006 190,272 0 167,552
28 Allred 66,290 103,763 20,000 22,918
28 Gates 500 554,728 1,066,100 27,986
28 Hale 343 11,755 1,000 1,452
28 Krenek 54,724 204,991 210,000 10,432
28 Laningham
28 Purnell
Neither Sarah Laningham nor Clinton Purnell had 8 day reports; neither had raised anythng before now, so not really a big deal. Gary Gates broke my formatting – I’d never had to make enough column space for a million-dollar loan before now. Whatever the outcome, no one can say Eliz Markowitz didn’t have the resources to compete. That also ups the pressure, but that’s life in the big leagues. She has some cash in reserve in case there is a runoff, but I think it’s clear that there will be plenty of money available no matter what.