Showing You the Money

The issue of campaign fund-raising came up last week and, as expected, the Daily News had an account of who had contributed what to which mayoral campaign.

Go here.

Quick points, no sign of Steve Karp anywhere as should be expected. He'd be wise to stay out of this until the winner is declared.

James Shanley has raised three times the dollars of Donna Holaday, $21,475 to $6,849. (Holaday already had a little bit in her "war chest" so her total is $8,653.)

The report covers donations made from Jan. 1 through Oct. 26.

By my reading, Shanley has vastly outspent Holaday. He's got $8,536 left in his campaign fund, which means he spent roughly $13,000 while Holaday has only $3,485, putting her expenditures at roughly $5,000.

I don't know how much more they'll be able to spend over the next five days, but both will have some dough if they decide to run again in 2011.