Jackson Free Press

JACKSON — Eleven of the 13 Jackson mayoral candidates filed campaign-finance reports with the Jackson City Clerk by the 5 p.m. deadline yesterday. The reports show that the son of late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba is leading the money race, with a total of $138,801. Chokwe Antar Lumumba filed $15,656 of the total in a required 48-hour report filed today, April 2.

As of the end of April 1, Councilman Melvin Priester Jr. and Sen. John Horhn were neck and neck for the No. 2 money spot with Priester bringing in $104,635 and Horhn $104,593 by the April 1 filing deadline.

Councilman Tony Yarber came in fourth with $95,716, former Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. with $60,355 and Councilwoman Margaret Barrett-Simon had raised $54,680 and attorney Regina Quinn reporting $38,968.

As of the April 1 deadline, Priester reported the most cash on hand, with $35,559 and Lumumba following with $19,533. But with Lumumba's April 2 48-hour report of an additional $15,656 in donations, his total seems to be virtually the same as Priester's currently. Barrett-Simon was third with $25,964 on hand, Quinn was fourth with $16,233 cash left as of April 1, Horhn was fifth with $12,081 cash on hand and Johnson sixth with $8,003 on hand. Yarber brought up the rear of the main candidates with only $796 left as of April 1.

Only John Reed and Gwendolyn Ward Osborne Chapman did not file a report by the deadline, and only one 48-hour report is in as of this writing (from Lumumba).

Here are the top candidates' largest three donors:

Chokwe Antar Lumumba

1- Donor's name was indecipherable but the address listed with the name goes to Moore's Auto Sales.

Jackson

$10,120 (In kind)

2 - Winston James Thompson

Attorney at Cochran Law Firm

Madison

$5,000

2 - Juan A. Mateo

Attorney

Detroit

$5,000

2- Gerald Evelyn

Attorney

Detroit

$5,000

2 - Teresa Davis

Attorney

Lawton, OK

$5,000

3 - Gennie and Warren Jones

contractor/physician

Ridgeland

$3,500

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Melvin Priester Jr

1- Charlene Priester

Attorney at Priester Law Firm

Jackson

$25,000

2 - Melvin Priester Jr.

Attorney at Priester Law Firm

Jackson

$17,455

3 - Pernila Brown

Agent at PSB Ventures

Jackson

$12,000

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John Horhn

1 - Friends of John Horhn (seeking detailed report of donors)

Jackson

$45,343

2 - John Horhn

Business Development Consultant at Horhn & Associates

Jackson

$20,000

3 - Dr. Dinesh Goel

Physician

$5,000

Mrs. Dinesh Goel

Office manager

$5,000

3 - Michael Caracci

Health Care Provider for Sta-Home Health

Jackson

$5,000

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Tony Yarber

1 - Tony Yarber

Ward 6 Councilman

Jackson

$20,000

2 - Socrates Garrett

Owner of Garrett Enterprise, local contractor

Jackson

$15,000

3 - E. R. Mitchell

President of E. R. Mitchell Construction

Atlanta

$10,000

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Harvey Johnson Jr.

1 - Marcus L. Wallace

President of MAC Construction

Jackson

$31,000

2 - George E. Irvin Sr.

Owner of Property Parcel Real Estate

Jackson

$5,000

3 - Alvin W. Marley

Chief Executive Officer at Lombardia Capital Partners

Chicago

$4,000

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Margaret Barrett-Simon

1 - MAC Associates

Jackson

$2,000

2 - James Barksdale

Woodlands Realty Group LLC

Ridgeland

$2,000

3 - Joseph Simpson

Madison

$1,000

3 - I.A.T.S.E. Local 589

Madison

$1,000

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Regina Quinn

1 - John May Jr. (Quinn's husband)

Attorney

Jackson

$38,736 (loan)

2 - Marcus May

Attorney

Jackson

$12,800 (loan)

3 - Carolyn Wallace

Construction

Jackson

$2,000

PDFs of all the 2014 reports received to date are posted in the JFP Document Morgue, which will be updated as they arrive. (See jfp.ms/documents.)

View JFP endorsement interviews with the seven most-known candidates here.

Correction: A previous version misstated the top donors to Chokwe A. Lumumba. Gerald Evelyn and Teresa Davis, both of Detroit, have now been added to the list. We regret the error.