Northampton — In the race to be Northampton’s next mayor, incumbent David Narkewicz handily outraised challenger John Riley during the campaign fundraising reporting period from Jan. 1 to Oct. 20 of this year.
Narkewicz raised $12,590 while Riley raised $3,965 during this period. Of this money, $9,160 of what Narkewicz raised came in form of itemized contributions, or donations that are more than $50. Riley’s itemized contributions totalled $3,300.
Most of the itemized contributions for both candidates came from within Massachusetts, although Narkewicz received two contributions from Colorado and one from Rhode Island, while Riley received one contribution from Florida and another from California.
Riley also contributed $1,600 to his own campaign, $1,200 of which were loans.
Riley raised no money before this period, while Narkewicz had $14,630.97 in his campaign’s account from previous fundraising periods.
Northampton has an ordinance that sets the maximum political contribution to a candiate running for office at $500, or half of the state maximum.
Five people donated the maximum to Narkewicz and one person donated the maximum to Riley. Narkewicz’s maximum donors were Robert Bacon, of Florence; Linda Bornstein, of Northampton; Lilibeth Denham, of Northampton, Bora Micic, of Charlestown; and Jonathan Wright, of Northampton. Riley’s maximum donor was Fred Mackler, of Florence.
A candidate may donate an unlimited amount of money to their own campaign.
Riley spent $3,958.01, and his campaign had $6.99 in its account at the end of the period, in addition to $1,200 in liabilities owed to him. There were no unitemized expenitures.
Narkewicz spent $7,921.12, of which $149.49 was unitemized. He had $19,299.85 in his campaign account at the end of the period.
Riley does not list his campaign headquarters, which he has advertised as being located in Gabriel Books, the business he owns, as an in-kind contribution on his campaign finance report.
He said that he did so because it cost his campaign no money.
Narkewicz said that his campaign chose not to have a headquarters for this election, and that much of the campaign’s work was done virtually.