The field for 2026 Tallahassee local races has just now begun to take shape, but candidates in several of the most contested contests have already raised significant funds.<\/p>\n
After the first filing deadline of the cycle, candidates in the Tallahassee Mayor\u2019s race have already raised a combined over $230,000.
The four-way Tallahassee Commission seat 3 race also saw fundraising efforts. <\/p>\n
Despite the candidates building their war chests early, the election is still a long way away. The candidates will appear on the ballot on August 18th of next year.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a breakdown of fundraising so far in those contests:<\/p>\n
Tallahassee Mayor<\/p>\n
Despite having filed under a month ago, Civil rights attorney Darryl Parks<\/a> is already leading the field with over $90,000 raised. City Commissioner Jeremy Matlow<\/a> brought in almost $75,000 while former state senator Loranne Ausley<\/a> brought in almost $65,000.<\/p>\n How the three candidates each brought in their money looks different. Parks relied heavily on his network outside Tallahassee, with about 70% of his contributions coming from outside the city. Matlow and Ausley got most of their donations from city residents. <\/p>\n Matlow received almost double the number of unique donors as Ausley, but she brought in more per donor, averaging $340 to Matlow\u2019s $227 average.<\/p>\n Tallahassee Commission Seat 3<\/p>\n Community advocate Talethia Edwards<\/a> and teacher PJ Perez<\/a> are neck and neck, with Edwards raising $15,000 and Perez raising $13,000. <\/p>\n Edwards\u2019 financials include donations from mayoral candidate Darryl Parks, state Representative Alison Tant, as well as Tallahassee Commissioners Dianne Williams-Cox and Curtis Richardson. Perez has the most individual donations in the field, getting support from over 120 people compared to Edwards\u2019 about 70 donors.<\/p>\n Third in fundraising is political consultant Max Herrle<\/a>, who brought in $7,000 from a combined 46 donors. Former Pinellas County Commissioner Norm Roche<\/a> brought $800, mostly through a $500 donation he gave to himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The field for 2026 Tallahassee local races has just now begun to take shape, but candidates in several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}