Juneau apparently likes a winner.<\/p>\n
According to records released Wednesday by the Alaska Public Offices commission, Rep. Justin Parish, D-Juneau, raised $44,403.60 in his campaign to defeat incumbent House District 34 Rep. Cathy Mu\u00f1oz, R-Juneau, but 10 percent of Parish\u2019s contributions came after his underdog win on Election Day \u2014 $4,374.67 in total.<\/p>\n
According to APOC filings, that\u2019s exceptional. No other sitting legislator raised as much money after Election Day. Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon, for example, collected only $250.<\/p>\n
Contributors may have been making up for lost time.<\/p>\n
According to APOC filings, Parish spent less than half the amount Mu\u00f1oz did during APOC\u2019s official campaign season, which runs until Feb. 1. Take away those donations after Election Day, and the figure is closer to one-third than a half.<\/p>\n
Mu\u00f1oz reported spending $85,245.05 before and on Election Day. Parish spent $37,463.34 during the same period, though he paid some bills after the election.<\/p>\n
Elections usually are decided by money: Candidates who have the most financial backing can advertise more and ensure greater name recognition.<\/p>\n
That pattern didn\u2019t hold in this year\u2019s presidential election, and it didn\u2019t hold in the House race for the Mendenhall Valley.<\/p>\n
Parish defeated Mu\u00f1oz by 195 votes out of 8,902 cast.<\/p>\n
After Election Day, Mu\u00f1oz gave most of her remaining campaign funds to the unpaid volunteers who supported her re-election effort.<\/p>\n
Parish did the same, but he also socked away $1,000 for expenses during his term, and he put away $4,782.26 for his next campaign.<\/p>\n
In House District 33, Rep. Sam Kito III, D-Juneau, was officially unopposed, but according to APOC documents, Bill McCord of Haines spent $1,614.61 on a challenge that was disallowed by the Alaska Division of Elections. According to the division, McCord hadn\u2019t lived in District 33 long enough.<\/p>\n
Records show Kito, despite facing no opposition, spent $17,342.22 between Feb. 1, 2016 and Feb. 1, 2017, the officially designated campaign year.<\/p>\n
Most of his expenses weren\u2019t expenses. He transferred $4,815.05 into his future campaign account, and he sent another $7,490.32 into his account for term expenses.<\/p>\n
PACs active as well <\/strong><\/p>\n In addition to the candidates who ran for office in 2016, Juneau\u2019s political action committees were busy during election season. According to APOC filings, the Tongass Democrats \u2014 Juneau\u2019s biggest PAC \u2014 raised $24,713 between Feb. 1, 2016 and Feb. 1, 2017. They begin APOC\u2019s 2017 campaign year with $16,137.27.<\/p>\n The Capital City Republican Women, Juneau\u2019s No. 2 PAC, raised $23,829.25 during the same period and had $10,552.94 in the bank on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n The Capital City Republicans, Juneau Education Association (JEA) Political Action Committee Education (PACE), Juneau Central Labor Council Political Action Committee and Juneau Pro-Choice Coalition Political Action Committee all reported raising less than $5,000 in 2016.<\/p>\n Correction:<\/strong> The initial version of this story reported the Tongass Democrats raised $109,742.68 between Feb. 1, 2016 and Feb. 1, 2017. Tongass Democrats treasurer Patrick Roach said Friday morning he accidentally reported the money raised over the life of the Tongass Democrats, not just the 2016 figure.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2022 Contact reporter James Brooks at james.k.brooks@juneauempire.com or call 419-7732.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Juneau apparently likes a winner. According to records released Wednesday by the Alaska Public Offices commission, Rep. Justin Parish, D-Juneau, raised $44,403.60 in his campaign to defeat incumbent House District 34 Rep. Cathy Mu\u00f1oz, R-Juneau, but 10 percent of Parish\u2019s contributions came after his underdog win on Election Day \u2014 $4,374.67 in total. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,237,225,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alaska-legislature","tag-election","tag-politics","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30282"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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