The next campaign finance reports from Lansing city council candidates are due October 23, 11 days before the election, but in the meantime we can look at the reports for the primary election. For both the primary and the general election, candidates submit 2 reports, a pre-election report and a post-election report. Post-election reports are due 30 after election day.

Since they were the only two running in the 1st ward, there was no primary and thus no primary reports for incumbent Jody Washington and challenger Shelley Davis Mielock. For them, we will have to wait until October 23.

Following are links to the actual reports along with contribution and expenditure totals and ending balances.

There were no reports from Mary Ann Prince, the only at-large candidate eliminated in the primary. Since she planned to spend less than $1000, she was granted a reporting waiver.

Since they are too numerous, I won't list all the contributions to each candidate. You can view them in the actual reports by clicking the links above. However, here are the contributions from political action committees (PACs):

Finally, the following are links to lists of expenditures for each candidate. Vendor address is shown on these lists only when not Lansing area. (Note: These lists have been updated to include expenditures from the pre-general election reports (8/25/2015-10/18/2015)).

A'Lynne Boles

Adam Hussain

Ryan Earl

Carol Wood

Harold Leeman

Patricia Spitzley

Emily Dievendorf

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