Mayoral Money: 5 Things about Who’s Funding the Race [MAPS, CHARTS]
Mayor Mike Duggan continues to outpace challenger Coleman Young II.
With just over a week until Election Day, campaign finance reports reveal huge disparity between the mayoral candidates. Here are five observations from the data in the reports:
1 – Exponential Differences
Mayor Mike Duggan, who never stopped raising money after he was elected four years ago, has raised nearly 40 times what challenger state Sen. Coleman Young II has in their respective campaigns just this year, according to records in the Wayne County Campaign Finance Information System.
Overall Contributions to Candidate Committees,
Jan. 1 to Oct. 22, 2017
| Duggan | Young | |
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Total Contributions |
$2,225,232 |
$58,832 |
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No. of Individual Contributions |
2,810 | 207 |
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Total Amount of Individual Contributions |
$1,941,403 |
$57,081 |
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No. of Political Action Committee Contributions |
88 | 3 |
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Total Amount of Political Action Committee Contributions |
$283,482 | $750 |
2 – City AND Suburbs
The map below shows the primary addresses the contributors gave when donating to Duggan, and it tells a story of regional support for the mayor.
WDET wanted to divide the donations between city and suburbs but it’s nearly impossible to do for a few reasons. First, some donors list their home address as the primary address while some use their office. Second, Duggan has donors who live in the suburbs and work in the city as well as donors who live (and presumably vote) in Detroit but work outside of the city — so how do you classify all of those?
Click on the municipality to see how much money was donated to Duggan from people who listed a primary address in that location:
Click on the municipality to see how much money was donated to Duggan from people who listed a primary address in that location:
3 – The PAC Presence
Duggan has a wide swath of the region’s industries offering financial support to his campaign. Here are the 10 highest political action committee (PAC) donors in dollar amounts in 2017 to Duggan’s candidate committee.:
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| GM – MI PAC |
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| Blue Cross Blue Shield PAC |
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| Detroit Regional Chamber PAC |
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| Miller Canfield PAC |
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| Detroit Auto Dealers Association PAC |
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| Schostak Family PAC |
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| Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters |
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| Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn Campaign Committee | $11,266 | ||
| Flagstar Michigan PAC |
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4 – The Turnaround PAC
This Super PAC spent more than $3 million in ads for Duggan during his 2013 campaign. In 2017, 22 donors gave to the Turnaround fund between June 6 and Oct. 12. Here they are:
| Donor | Amount |
| Roger Penske, Penske Corp. | $ 250,000 |
| Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters | $ 150,000 |
| Powering the Economy (Detroit Regional Chamber PAC) | $ 125,000 |
| Central Transport LLC (Moroun family) | $ 100,000 |
| Richard Manoogian | $ 50,000 |
| Weber Development | $ 40,000 |
| Soave Enterprises | $ 25,000 |
| Caidan Management Co. | $ 25,000 |
| Edw. C. Levy | $ 15,000 |
| Avinash Rachmale, CEO off Lakeshore Global | $ 15,000 |
| William Young, CEO of Plastipak Packaging | $ 10,000 |
| Matthew Simoncini, Lear Corp. | $ 10,000 |
| Fritz Enterprises | $ 10,000 |
| Huron Valley Steel Corp. | $ 10,000 |
| Data Consulting Group | $ 10,000 |
| John Boll, Sr. | $ 5,000 |
| Eugene Gargaro, Manoogian Foundataion | $ 5,000 |
| Ben Maibach, Barton Malow | $ 4,000 |
| Anthony Stephens | $ 2,000 |
| Vernoica Murff, State Farm | $ 2,000 |
| Thomas Mackey | $ 1,000 |
| Whitman Consulting LLC | $ 500 |
| TOTAL: | $ 864,500 |
5 – A Few Other Observations
- By March 3, Duggan had raised as much as Young had through Oct. 22, the reporting deadline for this round of reports.
- About 13 percent of Duggan’s money comes from a donor listing “Detroit” as a primary address. that compares to 55 percent of Young’s money.
- Young’s total money raised is less than 3 percent of Duggan’s.
