Mayoral challengers Brandon Johnson, Paul Vallas and Jesus “Chuy” Garcia have closed the fundraising gap with Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is still spending twice as much money as she’s raising, but none of them has caught millionaire businessman Willie Wilson.
The inspector general for the Chicago Public Schools on Thursday launched an investigation into Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s attempt to recruit CPS students to volunteer for her reelection campaign in exchange for class credit.Mayoral challengers Brandon Johnson, Paul Vallas and Jesus "Chuy" Garcia have closed the fundraising gap with Mayor, who is still spending twice as much money as she’s raising, but none of them has caught millionaire businessman Willie Wilson.
A Cook County commissioner and former Chicago Public Schools teacher who still serves as an organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union, Johnson started the quarter with $71,404 in the bank, raised $1.83 million, spent $578,356 to introduce himself to voters and closed with $1.32 million in the bank.
Lightfoot’s fundraising story is a mixed bag, similar to what it was after the last quarterly report. The Vallas campaign claims he has raked in $850,000 in additional contributions since Jan. 1 and "maintains a cash on hand figure of nearly $1.5 million despite consistently spending more on television ads than any other mayoral challenger in recent weeks."Chicago mayoral race latest: Lightfoot drops attack ad on Chuy; Ald. Lopez throws support behind Wilson
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