With one week before the Nov. 5 elections, the 33 candidates for Somerville’s Board of Alderman and School Committee have raised more than $260,000 between them in 2013.
That’s just enough to total more than the amount raised by Mayor Joe Curtatone – he’s pulled in $226,821 so far this year.
It’s Curtatone’s biggest haul yet, easily outstripping his previous high of about $146,000 in 2011, the last time he ran for mayor. And while it can’t compete with donation totals from this year’s mayoral race in Boston, it far exceeds donations in a race like Newton’s mayoral election, where incumbent Setti Warren has pulled in about $40,000 this year.
But this year Curtatone was also weighing a run for governor and he spent like it, dropping $202,891during the year. That includes $35,000 on political consultant Steve Jarding, a Harvard University lecturer who previously managed campaigns for Sens. Tom Daschle and Jim Webb, as well as a surprise winning gubernatorial bid for Mark Warner in Virginia.
Curtatone also spent $22,500 on consulting from Sage Systems and $44,000 on campaign workers and consultants William Harry Shipps, James O’Brien III and Michael Meehan, who previously worked under Curtatone in the mayor’s office as communications director. According to credit card receipts, the local restaurant Curtatone spent the most time at was Out Of The Blue. He spent $3,316 there over nine visits and for catering.
Once again, Curtatone saw a good chunk of money come in from city workers, board members and their relatives -- he received $16,000 from 92 people in that group. That amount is comparable to what he received in 2012, but that figure came from 119 city employees.
The second largest group of donors was another set of employees. Twenty-seven Herb Chambers workers donated $11,450 to his campaign. Behind that were 12 employees and family members from engineering firm CDR Maguire, who donated $4,000, and nine employees and family members from Gilbane construction, who donated $1,625.
Both Maguire and Gilbane have long histories of doing work in the city. According to city financial records, the city paid Gilbane more than $20 million over the last year and paid Maguire, which was involved in building the East Somerville Community School, $456,000.
Other developers also donated, including Berkeley Investments, who is constructing residential units at the old Highland Auto Parts at 625 McGrath Highway, and Cathartes, which is developing part of the controversial project at the old Boys and Girls Club. Berkeley employees donated $750 while Cathartes employees donated $1,000.
But the biggest cluster of donations came from developers, architects, attorneys and planners looking to develop the Powder House School – which was eventually awarded to Tufts University – and a hotel in Davis Square, which so far has been stalled. 31 people associated with those projects donated to Curtatone, including people who were associated with both. People associated with Davis Square hotel plans donated $6,050 while Powder House School applicants donated $4,650.
That’s just enough to total more than the amount raised by Mayor Joe Curtatone – he’s pulled in $226,821 so far this year.
It’s Curtatone’s biggest haul yet, easily outstripping his previous high of about $146,000 in 2011, the last time he ran for mayor. And while it can’t compete with donation totals from this year’s mayoral race in Boston, it far exceeds donations in a race like Newton’s mayoral election, where incumbent Setti Warren has pulled in about $40,000 this year.
But this year Curtatone was also weighing a run for governor and he spent like it, dropping $202,891during the year. That includes $35,000 on political consultant Steve Jarding, a Harvard University lecturer who previously managed campaigns for Sens. Tom Daschle and Jim Webb, as well as a surprise winning gubernatorial bid for Mark Warner in Virginia.
Curtatone also spent $22,500 on consulting from Sage Systems and $44,000 on campaign workers and consultants William Harry Shipps, James O’Brien III and Michael Meehan, who previously worked under Curtatone in the mayor’s office as communications director. According to credit card receipts, the local restaurant Curtatone spent the most time at was Out Of The Blue. He spent $3,316 there over nine visits and for catering.
Once again, Curtatone saw a good chunk of money come in from city workers, board members and their relatives -- he received $16,000 from 92 people in that group. That amount is comparable to what he received in 2012, but that figure came from 119 city employees.
The second largest group of donors was another set of employees. Twenty-seven Herb Chambers workers donated $11,450 to his campaign. Behind that were 12 employees and family members from engineering firm CDR Maguire, who donated $4,000, and nine employees and family members from Gilbane construction, who donated $1,625.
Both Maguire and Gilbane have long histories of doing work in the city. According to city financial records, the city paid Gilbane more than $20 million over the last year and paid Maguire, which was involved in building the East Somerville Community School, $456,000.
Other developers also donated, including Berkeley Investments, who is constructing residential units at the old Highland Auto Parts at 625 McGrath Highway, and Cathartes, which is developing part of the controversial project at the old Boys and Girls Club. Berkeley employees donated $750 while Cathartes employees donated $1,000.
But the biggest cluster of donations came from developers, architects, attorneys and planners looking to develop the Powder House School – which was eventually awarded to Tufts University – and a hotel in Davis Square, which so far has been stalled. 31 people associated with those projects donated to Curtatone, including people who were associated with both. People associated with Davis Square hotel plans donated $6,050 while Powder House School applicants donated $4,650.
With one week before the Nov. 5 elections, the 33 candidates for Somerville’s Board of Alderman and School Committee have raised more than $260,000 between them in 2013.
That’s just enough to total more than the amount raised by Mayor Joe Curtatone – he’s pulled in $226,821 so far this year.
It’s Curtatone’s biggest haul yet, easily outstripping his previous high of about $146,000 in 2011, the last time he ran for mayor. And while it can’t compete with donation totals from this year’s mayoral race in Boston, it far exceeds donations in a race like Newton’s mayoral election, where incumbent Setti Warren has pulled in about $40,000 this year.
But this year Curtatone was also weighing a run for governor and he spent like it, dropping $202,891during the year. That includes $35,000 on political consultant Steve Jarding, a Harvard University lecturer who previously managed campaigns for Sens. Tom Daschle and Jim Webb, as well as a surprise winning gubernatorial bid for Mark Warner in Virginia.
Curtatone also spent $22,500 on consulting from Sage Systems and $44,000 on campaign workers and consultants William Harry Shipps, James O’Brien III and Michael Meehan, who previously worked under Curtatone in the mayor’s office as communications director. According to credit card receipts, the local restaurant Curtatone spent the most time at was Out Of The Blue. He spent $3,316 there over nine visits and for catering.
Once again, Curtatone saw a good chunk of money come in from city workers, board members and their relatives -- he received $16,000 from 92 people in that group. That amount is comparable to what he received in 2012, but that figure came from 119 city employees.
The second largest group of donors was another set of employees. Twenty-seven Herb Chambers workers donated $11,450 to his campaign. Behind that were 12 employees and family members from engineering firm CDR Maguire, who donated $4,000, and nine employees and family members from Gilbane construction, who donated $1,625.
Both Maguire and Gilbane have long histories of doing work in the city. According to city financial records, the city paid Gilbane more than $20 million over the last year and paid Maguire, which was involved in building the East Somerville Community School, $456,000.
Other developers also donated, including Berkeley Investments, who is constructing residential units at the old Highland Auto Parts at 625 McGrath Highway, and Cathartes, which is developing part of the controversial project at the old Boys and Girls Club. Berkeley employees donated $750 while Cathartes employees donated $1,000.
But the biggest cluster of donations came from developers, architects, attorneys and planners looking to develop the Powder House School – which was eventually awarded to Tufts University – and a hotel in Davis Square, which so far has been stalled. 31 people associated with those projects donated to Curtatone, including people who were associated with both. People associated with Davis Square hotel plans donated $6,050 while Powder House School applicants donated $4,650.
That’s just enough to total more than the amount raised by Mayor Joe Curtatone – he’s pulled in $226,821 so far this year.
It’s Curtatone’s biggest haul yet, easily outstripping his previous high of about $146,000 in 2011, the last time he ran for mayor. And while it can’t compete with donation totals from this year’s mayoral race in Boston, it far exceeds donations in a race like Newton’s mayoral election, where incumbent Setti Warren has pulled in about $40,000 this year.
But this year Curtatone was also weighing a run for governor and he spent like it, dropping $202,891during the year. That includes $35,000 on political consultant Steve Jarding, a Harvard University lecturer who previously managed campaigns for Sens. Tom Daschle and Jim Webb, as well as a surprise winning gubernatorial bid for Mark Warner in Virginia.
Curtatone also spent $22,500 on consulting from Sage Systems and $44,000 on campaign workers and consultants William Harry Shipps, James O’Brien III and Michael Meehan, who previously worked under Curtatone in the mayor’s office as communications director. According to credit card receipts, the local restaurant Curtatone spent the most time at was Out Of The Blue. He spent $3,316 there over nine visits and for catering.
Once again, Curtatone saw a good chunk of money come in from city workers, board members and their relatives -- he received $16,000 from 92 people in that group. That amount is comparable to what he received in 2012, but that figure came from 119 city employees.
The second largest group of donors was another set of employees. Twenty-seven Herb Chambers workers donated $11,450 to his campaign. Behind that were 12 employees and family members from engineering firm CDR Maguire, who donated $4,000, and nine employees and family members from Gilbane construction, who donated $1,625.
Both Maguire and Gilbane have long histories of doing work in the city. According to city financial records, the city paid Gilbane more than $20 million over the last year and paid Maguire, which was involved in building the East Somerville Community School, $456,000.
Other developers also donated, including Berkeley Investments, who is constructing residential units at the old Highland Auto Parts at 625 McGrath Highway, and Cathartes, which is developing part of the controversial project at the old Boys and Girls Club. Berkeley employees donated $750 while Cathartes employees donated $1,000.
But the biggest cluster of donations came from developers, architects, attorneys and planners looking to develop the Powder House School – which was eventually awarded to Tufts University – and a hotel in Davis Square, which so far has been stalled. 31 people associated with those projects donated to Curtatone, including people who were associated with both. People associated with Davis Square hotel plans donated $6,050 while Powder House School applicants donated $4,650.
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