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Syracuse, NY – Mayor Ben Walsh always overtakes his opponents in the mayoral election, raising $ 2.86 for every dollar raised by Khalid Bey and $ 28 for every dollar raised by Janet Burman.
Walsh has raised about $ 88,585 since July, according to state campaign fundraising reports filed last week. After the expenses, that leaves Walsh with almost $ 345,000 in the bank.
Meanwhile, Bey, a Democrat, raised about $ 31,028 and Burman, a Republican, raised $ 3,151 in the same reporting period.
Walsh started the general election cycle with 100 times the money of his two opponents combined. While he didn’t continue this trend in the latest campaign brief, he still has nearly 12 times the money of Bey and around 200 times the amount of Burman.
Walsh’s top donors during the last reporting cycle include James Ranalli III and Dennis Nave, who each donated $ 3,600 to the incumbent’s campaign and whose companies have contributed additional funds. James Capparelli, Michael Frame, and Brian Sivin each donated $ 2,500, and local developer Michael Falcone donated $ 1,500. A total of 27 people contributed $ 1,000 or more to the campaign.
The construction company provided some of Walsh’s largest donations. Construction consulting firm Landon & Rian Enterprises and building materials company JHP Industrial Supply Co. each supported their campaign with $ 3,674. Acropolis Development – a group that secured $ 1.8 million in tax relief from the city in 2018 for a downtown mixed-use building – contributed $ 2,000.
Teamsters Local 317 also supported Walsh with a payment of $ 2,000, as did the Northeastern Regional Carpenters Council Political Education Committee with $ 2,674.
Several of Walsh’s smaller donations came from city workers who appeared to support their boss’s candidacy for another term.
Bey received fewer large donations than Walsh, with eight people donating at least $ 1,000.
Linda Kenan, wife of Bruce Kenan, director of Destiny USA, was Bey’s main donor during the last reporting period with $ 2,500. Destiny is the strongest opponent of the state’s proposal to demolish part of Interstate 81 and reroute traffic around the city. Walsh is a champion of the state plan.
Freedom Torrence, who lives in Scarsdale and does not appear to have donated to political campaigns in New York in the past, has given Bey nearly $ 1,900 since July and over $ 4,600 in total.
Bob Gardino, a member of the group trying to stop Walsh from removing the Columbus monument downtown, gave Bey $ 250. NFL Hall of Fame member Floyd Little also gave Bey a little boost in August, despite her death in January. The rules for financing electoral campaigns allow people to make political candidates the beneficiaries of their estates.
The other town councilors also donated to Bey’s campaign, including main opponent Michael Greene, who has since backed Bey, and Latoya Allen. Jumaane williams, the New York City public attorney considering a gubernatorial candidacy, donated $ 300. Francis Conole, a Democratic congressional candidate against Rep. John Katko, donated $ 300.
Burman is its largest donor, having donated $ 2,000 in kind to his campaign. All other donations to his campaign – from four people and a political committee – totaled just over $ 1,100.
The disparity in revenue for each campaign is the difference in spending: Since July, Walsh’s campaign has spent more than $ 170,000, more than 11 times more than its two opponents combined.
Walsh paid over $ 45,000 to the New York City center political advertising company The Balduzzi Group for a direct mail campaign and spent over $ 50,000 on various television, online and print advertisements. Walsh also has a paid campaign manager who earns around $ 3,870 per month.
Bey spent just under $ 12,000, more than three-quarters of which went to two campaign consultants. He also spent about $ 1,300 on print ads and about $ 500 on voter registration materials.
Burman spent his own in-kind donation of $ 2,000 on printing and mailing. Her other expenses – mainly food for volunteers and email services – totaled less than $ 700.
Candidates will file another campaign finance report with the state later this month. The election is November 2.
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