Yavapai County District 3 Supervisor Candidate Nikki Check [D] and loli drake [R] released its pre-general election campaign finance report on Saturday, October 26th.
During the election period, Check raised $68,354 and had $203 remaining at the end of the reporting period. The Democratic Party of Red Rocks political action committee gave her $1,000, and the Arizona List, a political action committee that supports Democratic women, gave $1,500.
Mr. Drake, who ran unopposed in the Republican primary, had raised $32,880 and had $9,537 remaining as of Oct. 26. Among Mr. Drake’s larger donors were the Mingus Mountain Republican Club, which gave $2,000, and the Yavapai County Republican Committee, which gave $1,000.
Drake and Check finished their primary season at the end of September on equal financial footing, with Check reporting $18,737 and Drake $17,477.
Democratic incumbent Donna Michaels raised $82,407 after starting the election cycle with $1,281. Despite Mr. Michaels’ biggest chest, Mr. Check defeated Mr. Michaels 72% to 28% in the July 30 primary.
The general election race between Check and Drake will be the final race to determine the composition of the Board of Supervisors, as Check and Michaels were the only Democrats running for Yavapai County government seats.
The Republican candidate who wins the July primary will win the seat without facing an opponent in the general election.
Brooks Compton won the Republican race with 41% of the vote, raising $31,790, Greg Mengarelli with 36% and $69,456, David McNabb with 12% and $755, and Deb. Mr. Parnis followed with 10% at $5,573.
In District 2, incumbent James Gregory received 58% of the vote and raised $4,750. Primary challenger Wiley Klein self-funded his campaign, spending $6,599.
Yavapai College Trustee Chris Cucunyo raised $48,723 and narrowly defeated District 4 incumbent Craig Brown by 138 votes, receiving 40% of the vote in a three-way battle with Lucy Reyna Wheat. obtained. In that race, Brown raised $12,676 and Wheat raised $5,119.
Mary Mallory won re-election in the District 5 primary with 70% of the vote and raised $8,115 compared to Richard Tupek’s personal spending of $343.
According to the Federal Election Commission, Crane’s total income of $7.39 million has led to the race for the 2nd Congressional District between Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Eli Crane and Democratic challenger Jonathan Nez. In terms of funding, Nez has a nearly two-to-one advantage over the company’s $4 million. I will report it.
As of Oct. 16, Democratic Senate candidate Ruben Gallego had raised $56.8 million compared to Republican Kari Lake’s $21.4 million.
DuVernay’s recall
Cottonwood City Councilmember Lisa DuVernay has removed herself from office and challenged Christopher Dowell, the former interim chief of the Cottonwood Police Department, for showing a pornographic video at the Aug. 8 City Council meeting. He is running in a recall election to replace him. , 2023 when the children were there. On October 3, 2023, she voted to appoint her husband, Michael DuVernay, to the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission in violation of Arizona’s nepotism law, Arizona Revised Statutes Section 38-481. He then threatened legal action against the city if the mayor did not direct staff to draft a city ordinance that had already been rejected by a majority of the council.
Mr. Dowell raised $788, and filed a report showing $680 of that was personal funds.
City Clerk Tami Mays said DuVernay has not filed campaign finance reports for the recall election.
