announced he will retire<\/a> from the position next month.\n<\/p>\nCouncilmember Brian O\u2019Connor of District 3, with a term also expiring in January, is running to keep his seat against challenger Amy Becker.\n<\/p>\n
The most recent deadline for candidates to file their campaign finances with the town clerk\u2019s office was Oct. 19, covering a reporting period from Oct. 5 through Oct. 19. Candidates\u2019 first campaign finance reports were due to the clerk\u2019s office Sept. 4., a second filing was due Oct. 5., and the last round of filings are due Dec. 3.\n<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at what candidates have reported so far.<\/p>\n
District 1<\/p>\n
\u2022 Sawusch has reported about $5,600 in contributions to his campaign, including over $2,000 from personal loans. Sawusch has filed around $4,300 in expenditures.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Braudes has reported about $3,900 in contributions to his campaign. Braudes listed himself as the person who contributed the entirety of that money. He has filed the same amount, around $3,900, in expenditures.<\/p>\n
District 2<\/p>\n
\u2022 Dreckman has reported roughly $9,000 in contributions to her campaign, including loans of roughly $4,000 from Dean Dreckman. She has reported around $1,900 in expenditures.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Hemphill has reported about $5,000 in contributions to his campaign, including $2,000 from a personal loan. Hemphill has reported about $2,600 in expenditures.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Basnet has not reported any contributions to his campaign and about $1,000 in expenditures.<\/p>\n
District 3<\/p>\n
\u2022 Becker has reported about $3,900 in contributions to her campaign and about $3,900 in expenditures.<\/p>\n
\u2022 O\u2019Connor has reported about $4,700 in contributions to his campaign, including $2,500 from a personal loan. O\u2019Connor has reported about $2,500 in expenditures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next week\u2019s election asks Erie voters to fill three seats on the Town Council \u2014 with one seat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1675,1676,6838,836,3612,136,138,137,1677,241,139,50,1680],"class_list":["post-315705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-boulder-county","tag-colorado","tag-east-county","tag-election","tag-election-2026","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-front-range","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-weld-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}