With Tallahassee\u2019s local elections nearing, campaign-finance reports through July 31 show a wide range in fundraising among candidates \u2014 with some races appearing highly competitive financially and others dominated by one candidate.<\/p>\n
The Tallahassee mayoral race has the largest fundraising totals. Former state Sen. Loranne Ausley leads with $347,252.92 in contributions, followed closely by Daryl Parks with $319,917.55. Jeremy Matlow has raised $188,987.90, while Mike Foust has collected $6,437.49.<\/p>\n
The numbers make the mayor\u2019s race the most competitive financially at the top. Ausley has raised about $27,335 more than Parks, while Matlow trails Ausley by roughly $158,265.<\/p>\n
In City Commission Seat 3, Tom Derzypolski leads the six-candidate field with $116,519.16. Talethia Edwards is second at $84,294.26, followed by PJ Perez at $67,916.21. Maxwell Herrle has raised $31,880.07, while Norm Roche and Darryl Alfred are far behind at $7,256.87 and $6,375.90, respectively.<\/p>\n
That makes Seat 3 a three-candidate fundraising race at the top, with Derzypolski holding a roughly $32,225 advantage over Edwards and $48,603 over Perez.<\/p>\n
Seat 5 is less competitive financially. Dianne Williams-Cox leads with $75,537, more than three times the $23,784.26 raised by Dot Inman-Johnson and nearly four times the $19,970.30 raised by Tiffany Hill.<\/p>\n
Among the Leon County School Board races, District 3 incumbent Darryl Jones is unopposed. District 5 has a substantial fundraising disparity, with Marcus Nicolas raising $14,797.78, compared with $3,481 for James G. Reilly Jr.<\/p>\n
The figures suggest the mayor\u2019s race is the closest fundraising contest, while Seat 3 has a meaningful three-way financial competition. Seat 5 and the School Board District 5 race show much larger fundraising gaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Tallahassee\u2019s local elections nearing, campaign-finance reports through July 31 show a wide range in fundraising among candidates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-366302","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\/366302","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=366302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}