One Last Look at Money in the 2026 Greenburgh Supervisor Primary

We now have the updated campaign finance disclosures for the 2026 Greenburgh Town Supervisor primary. This bar chart visualizes fundraising in calendar year 2026 for Paul Feiner and Barry McGoey. I'm also including the Greenburgh Democratic Party Committee in these charts as the Committee played an active role  - maybe the leading role -  in McGoey's campaign. Not all Greenburgh Dem Committee fundraising here was focused on the campaign, but most certainly was gathered for this effort.  

Among the individual, itemized donors, Feiner had 98 donors residing in Greenburgh who gave $16,961.  McGoey had 64 itemized Greenburgh donors who gave $15,575

Outside Greenburgh: Feiner had $2,050 from itemized donors.  McGoey received $19,608 in itemized donations from non-Greenburgh residents. Nearly all McGoey's Union, PACs and business donations came from organizations with non-Greenburgh addresses. However, the Teamsters office located in Elmsford gave the Greenburgh Democratic Party $11,000 presumably to support McGoey's campaign.  About 26 donors gave to both McGoey's committee and the Greenburgh Democratic Party during this time frame. 

Most of the consultants and bookkeeping spending certainly went for mailings, especially the Greenburgh Dem Committee allocations to North Shore Strategies.  The Greenburgh Democratic   Committee spent $42,000 on the campaign but still increased their account by $3,500 during the campaign season, I'm assuming that a significant portion of the money that the Committee raised - including during their annual fundraiser - went toward expenditures for McGoey's campaign. 

For context, here is a comparison of this 2026 campaign with spending in Feiner's three previous primary challenges. Unfortunately, I don't have the campaign finance filing for the Greenawalt primary in 2005 that nearly toppled Feiner.   The second bar graph shows how much money Feiner had in his campaign account when the primary season started.  It initially looked as though 2026 was the year to challenge Feiner with his account so depleted entering the campaign, but Feiner had an ace up his sleeve: he had $42,000 stashed away in federal campaign from his congressional campaigns against Ben Gillman in 1998 and 2000 that he shrewdly transferred over to this state campaign account. However, as Feiner ended the campaign with $32,187 in his state campaign account, he didn't end up needing most of this money after all.  

So it is interesting to see that the candidates themselves did not spend impressive amounts on this campaign. With numbers adjusted for inflation, McGoey spent less than Feiner's previous challengers.  Feiner spent in real dollars the least he has invested in any of these four campaigns.  The expenditure of the Greenburgh Democratic Party, however, in this campaign raised spending to a new level - although still less than Berger's spending in 2007 when adjusted for inflation. I can't really tell how much the Greenburgh Democratic Party spent in previous races against Feiner - expenditures can be identified that look like campaign spending - but those amounts do not come close to the $42,000 allocated by the Committee in the 2026 primary.to support McGoey.