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ATLANTIC CITY - Incumbent Mayor Lorenzo Langford has raised twice as much and spent four times as much as his nearest competitors in the general election - thanks in part to a long-absent contributor.
Langford has raised $47,461 as of Oct. 3, $10,000 of it from the Democratic State Committee, according to his most recent campaign-finance report. He has spent $31,164.
Election Law Enforcement Commission documents indicate the state party hadn't given to Langford since 2001, when he got $3,600, as well as the endorsement of gubernatorial candidate Jim McGreevey.
That was the last campaign in which Langford got the Atlantic County Democratic Committee's help, too. It gave him $19,700 in his successful general-election challenge of incumbent Mayor Jim Whelan, a Democrat who ran as an independent that year.
But in 2005, the county party spent nearly $300,000 in its attempt to defeat the incumbent Langford in the primary.
City and county Democrats backed Bob Levy, who had switched from the Republican Party the previous winter. Then-U.S. Sen. Jon S. Corzine, the gubernatorial candidate, successfully fought to have his name appear in the ballot column shared by Levy and the other county-endorsed Democrats.
Levy defeated Langford, who then endorsed Republican Frank Blee over the Democrat Whelan in the general election race for state Assembly.
In this year's primary, city Democrats narrowly chose to endorse Langford over Councilman Marty Small, and county Democrats followed suit. The state party declined to endorse either man.
Democratic Councilman Dennis Mason, running for mayor as an independent, has raised $23,675 and spent $7,077. Fellow independent Joseph Polillo has raised $9,350 and spent $7,940, most of it his own money.
Republican nominee Jesse O. Kurtz has raised $5,625 and spent $3,928. His Republican predecessor in the 2008 special election for a one-year term, John McQueen, raised and spent less than $3,500 and wasn't required to report his finances.
Polillo led Langford in fundraising with a month to go last fall, earning $23,775 and spending $18,831 to the Democratic nominee's $21,635 in receipts and $6,558 in expenses.
Over the remainder of the 2008 campaign, Langford outraised Polillo $26,725 to $5,465 and outspent him, $38,397 to $16,082.
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Langford's money
Previous campaign-finance figures for Mayor Lorenzo Langford:
Election, Raised, Spent
2001 primary: $110,125, $92,333
2001 general: $314,098, $311,875
2005 primary: $158,490, $169,802
2008 primary: $63,480, $57,647
2008 general: $48,360, $44,955
2009 primary: $86,282, $84,787
Source: New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission
Posted in ATLANTIC CITY | BREAKING | POLITICS on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 8:35 pm
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