Financial Disclosures Show Dean on Top of Money Pile

Candidates in Metro’s run-off election made their financial disclosures with the election commission yesterday and the mayor’s race saw a shift.

Mayoral candidate Karl Dean had largely self-financed his campaign up until the general election. Since then, the former Metro Law director hasn’t contributed any money to his campaign and still out-raised his opponent Bob Clement. Dean put together more than 600-thousand dollars; Clement, a former congressman, 500-thousand.

Dean did give his campaign 250-thousand dollars between the last disclosure, July 24th, and the general election, which was August 2nd. That raises his total to nearly 900-thousand dollars for the reporting period.

Clement, himself, still has not made significant contributions to his campaign which has raised a total of nearly 1.9-million dollars. Dean said the day he entered the race that it might take as much as a million dollars to win. He’s now eclipsed the 2-million dollar mark.