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
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
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
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
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
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
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.