Mobile and Baldwin County News
Mobile Mayor Sam Jones' 2005 campaign raised more than $832,000 in cash and spent nearly $936,000 to win a four-seat race, according to the annual year-end financial report filed in…
John Peavy's campaign spent more than $250,000 in a month and took out $190,000 in loans, guaranteed by a group of Mobile businessmen, to close the gap on Sam Jones…
Frontrunner Sam Jones raised more than $77,000 and spent nearly $180,000 in the weeks before Mobile's Sept. 13 mayoral runoff against City Councilman John Peavy.
John Peavy's mayoral campaign spent $154,284 in the final reporting period and entered the last days before Mobile's Aug. 23 election with just $13,803.72 remaining on hand.
Days before Mobile's Aug. 23 election, the seven candidates for the open District 7 City Council seat filed campaign finance reports, revealing firefighter money, police endorsements and a self-funded restaurateur.
Sam Jones' mayoral campaign reported spending $155,584 and raising $78,520 in the final reporting period, closing with nearly $114,000 on hand ahead of Mobile's Aug. 23 election.
Seeking a fifth term on the Mobile City Council, District 2 incumbent Thomas Sullivan raised nearly $15,800 in the closing weeks and entered election week with about $7,000 on hand.
A $5,000 gift from the Mobile Fire Fighters Association helped power challenger William Carroll's campaign against longtime District 2 Councilman Thomas Sullivan, whose seat dates to 1989.
Ann Bedsole's mayoral campaign reported spending more than $160,000 in 30 days, most of it on advertising, entering the final week before Mobile's Aug. 23 election with about $30,000 on…
Veteran Mobile City Councilman Clinton L. Johnson Sr. raised $16,550 for the final reporting period of his all-but-certain bid for a record sixth term in the city's Aug. 23 municipal…