What a great success story!
Peterson had about $3 million to start, ended up with about $4.5 million and spent about $2 million or so if I read the campaign reports correctly.
Greg Ballard started of $10K in the hole after paying the Party’s “qualifying fee”. He raised about $200K there at the end, when it because clear it would be a close race.
When I lost my bid for a Council seat, Greg Ballard was about 40 points behind the outgoing Mayor. The Party did not support Greg Ballard until Election Day. After the results were announced it was amazing all of these new “friends” came out of the woodwork.