NE: Campaign donations busting records with Lincoln mayoral primary still a month away
If there’s one issue that could dominate Lincoln’s mayoral race, it just might be money.
For starters, this is already the most expensive mayoral race in the city’s history, and the Peed family and its publishing company Sandhills Global, along with the Ricketts family, are dominating the campaign landscape as major Republican donors.
In the mayor’s race, Republican state Sen. Suzanne Geist has raised $1.1 million in cash and in-kind contributions, and has spent nearly $742,000 in cash and in-kind gifts, according to Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure records.
Incumbent Leirion Gaylor Baird, a Democrat, has raised $820,000 and has spent about $189,500.
Stan Parker, a Republican who runs the Christian ministry MyBridge, has raised about $49,300 in cash and in-kind contributions and spent a little more than $30,000 thus far.
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