Will Wynn Running for Re-Election
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
Austin Mayor Will Wynn (who's website address is just too clever you'd never expect it) filed the first campaign finance report of his 2006 re-election campaign yesterday. Wynn raised $40,430 from 428 individual donors in the period between November 16th and December 31st.
The total of more than $40,000 is an unprecedented sum this early in the campaign season. Since Austin’s Fair Campaign Ordinance went into effect in 1997, limiting individual contributions to $100 and all but eliminating donations from outside the city, no candidate has raised $40,000 in the first reporting period.
Mayor Wynn will officially announce his re-election campaign with a kick-off event at the Broken Spoke on Friday, February 3rd, from 5 pm to 7 pm. Asleep at the Wheel will perform live to support the campaign.
Danny Thomas, outgoing City Councilmember (and supported of Proposition 2 last fall) is the only other announced candidate I am aware of (other than Jennifer Gale or Leslie whom I'm not doubting might end up filing).
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at January 18, 2006 11:29 PM
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Note: Mayor Wynn decided not to comply with the Austin Fair Campaign Ordinance, meaning that he can raise funds under normal law, but just not use any public funds for the campaign. Or so says his website...
jw
Yeah, I thought that was odd as well. Interestingly, Perry's speech that night was analyzed in one of my classes, Political Communication. Though he was certainly more lively than KBH, apparently he was booed at one point.
