Money in the Greenburgh Supervisor Campaign: Revenue

The campaigns filed their campaign finance disclosures through May 17.  Adding in these new numbers to the January filing, we find:

CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED

TASHA YOUNG:  $38,343

PAUL FEINER:     $33,962  

[NOTE: Paul Feiner started the campaign season this past Fall with $87,263 in his campaign account] 

Tasha's impressive haul, dating back to the start of her campaign in October 2020, comes from 252 individual donors (many of whom have made multiple donations).  Unlike Tasha, Paul has not itemized his donations under $100 so we don't know how many actual donors he has.  Paul does have 114 itemized donors (i.e., donors who made individual donations of $100 or more).    Assuming that Paul's non-itemized donations (totaling $6562) average about $50 per donations (similar to Tasha's "small" donations), we can guess that Feiner has another 131 donors, bringing him up to 246 total, almost the same as Tasha.   Of course there may be donors making multiple donations within Feiner's receipts.   

While Tasha is winning both the donations and donors battle, she is trailing in the important indicator of fundraising within Greenburgh.  Fewer than half of Tasha's donors (103 of 252) and funds ($17,240  or 45%) come from inside Greenburgh.   We don't know Paul's in-disrict totals becasuse of his annoying failure to itemize small donations, but among his itemized donors, 105 of the 114 are in-district amounting to $24,240.  So even without accouting for in-district small donors, Paul has surpassed Tasha within Greenburgh in both donors and donations.

As noted above, Tasha has surprised some with strong fundraising, but her $38,343 to work with is less than 1/3 of the $121,198 that Paul Feiner has had available for his campaign as of May 17.

Big Spenders: Paul has seven donors (including apparently a married couple in Edgemont forking over $2000 each) who have written him checks in the amount of $1000 or more; Tasha has five such big donors.  

EDGEMONT LUVS PAUL!:  some will be surprised that Paul got 18 itemized donations in the amount og $8300 (nearly 25% of all donations!)  from Edgemont residents.  Non-itemized donations could be adding a lot more.  Tasha has just 8 total donors from Edgemont for a total of $1,229.  

A lot of Paul's donors are familiar names from his past fundraising: you know who they are.  Tasha has some interesting donors including elected officials like Westchester County Councilmembers Alfred Williams and Catherine Borgia, State Senator Kevin Parker, and a possible donation from the Satmar Rebbe. 

We'll look at expenditures soon, once I can figure out what's going on with the filings.