Indiana

What Gives?

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

I’ve been glancing through the Mayor’s campaign finance reports this evening.

For the 2008 cycle, an off-season for municipal elections, incumbent Greg Ballard raised more than $835,000 and had more than $530,000 in the bank by the end of the year.

A Ballard campaign official says they exceeded their expectations for the year seeing how the Governor and other Republicans were also raising money and they did not want to infringe on those efforts.

Some of the Mayor’s biggest contributions came from…

• Eli Lilly - $25,000
• Bose McKinney & Evans - $25,000
• Baker & Daniels - $25,000
• Keystone Construction - $28,000

Barnes & Thornburg, the bane of some local Internet bloggers and conspiracy theorists, only gave $12,000 to the Mayor’s campaign in 2008.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on January 21, 2009 (boomark / email).