According to the latest campaign treasurer’s reports, more than 62% of Deveron Gibbons cash contributions last quarter came from donors outside of St. Petersburg. Gibbons raised $41,030 in cash contributions with $25,504 coming from donors who don’t even live in St. Petersburg. Overall, Gibbons has raised $156,655 with more than $100,504 of that coming from donors outside of St. Petersburg.
Thanks to a nudge from Karl Nurse and, perhaps, a little blogging of my own, the City of St. Petersburg is now publishing online the campaign treasurers’ reports from all of the candidates running this year. The reports are only in PDF format, so you can’t search a database as you can on the Florida Division of Elections’ website, but this is a good first step.
One of the first projects I went to work on after returning to St. Petersburg was to ask the city to make available online the campaign treasurers’ reports detailing the contributions and expenditures of all the candidates running for city government. I wrote an open letter to Councilman Karl Nurse asking him and his colleagues “to instruct the City Clerk’s office to develop an online system that provides all of the information found on the Campaign Treasurers’ report, including all…
This is an open letter mailed to Karl Nurse. I hope you will join me in this effort. Dear Council Member Nurse: – It was a pleasure to see you at the clean-up effort at Mirror Lake this past Saturday — it’s always reassuring to see our elected officials rolling up their sleeves to make our city a better place to live. – As we discussed, I am concerned about the influence of money in this year’s municipal elections. With…