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Maybe this explains the Kirksey Panic?
Topic Started: Nov 3 2007, 10:52 AM (428 Views)
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Donations flow into mayor's race
By Alex Lundberg
STAFF WRITER


The two candidates for Livonia mayor have raised and spent tens of thousands of dollars to run for the office this year, according to campaign spending filings with the Wayne County Clerk's office in Detroit.

As of Oct. 26, Maureen Miller Brosnan had raised $127,901 and spent $112,145 of that to run for the city's top administrative post - spending $25,817 since the primary balloting.


Jack Kirksey trails Brosnan in fund-raising this reporting period and overall. He has raised $7,950 in this reporting period, bringing his overall tally to $91,970. He has spent $14,620 since the primary, bringing his overall spending in his third run for mayor to $66,656.

Kirksey said there will be some funds trickling in, but that part of the game is largely over.

"It's behind us," he said. "We're going door-to-door in the final throes of our grass-roots campaign."

Kirksey said his funds will fall around $97,000, far short of some campaign predictions that said a serious competitor would have to raise funds on the order of $150,000 to make a run at Livonia City Hall.

The landscape has changed, but it also depends on how you want to spend your funds.

"We've done a lot of e-mailing, that's cheaper," Kirksey said. "It depends on what the candidates want to do. If you want TV time, you're going to spend a lot more than you would if you stuck to printed materials."

The lion's share of Brosnan's campaign funds since the primary has gone toward printing, telephone surveys, consultants and postage.

The major portion of Kirksey's funds has been spent on mailings, signs and printing.

Brosnan's final fund-raiser was a breakfast event Halloween morning. She said she plans to spend every dime she raises.

"The worst thing on election day is to lose and have money left over in the safe," Brosnan said. "We're putting everything we've got into delivering our message."

The largest expenses for her turned out to be the consulting firms she hired in the primary.

It's not a move she made in her previous races for the city council, but she expects this is the biggest race for the mayorship in the city's history.

"We said from the beginning it would be a $200,000 race," Brosnan said. "We're going to come close to that."

Spending by other organizations in support of or opposing candidates are not included in these figures.

The mayor will be paid $102,000.

alundberg@hometownlife.com ­| (734) 953-2109
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