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If you had a million dollars what would you do with it? If you answered run two campaigns for Principal Chief, you would need every penny. Between Smith and Baker, more than $1,171,000 is invested in this campaign.
The Tulsa World did us a semi-favor by posting some information about the latest campaign finance reports, but they managed to not post the actual reports online, so those are still to come. However, we can get to the basics now and the details later.
In August, Smith raised $ 102,979.12 and loaned himself $38,000. That makes his fundraising total (our math, not the World’s) $494,544.19, and his loan total of $78,301.91 for a total available to his campaign so far of: $572,648.10. Which sounds like a lot of money, and it is, until you realize Baker’s stack is just as big.
Between August 16 and September 15, Baker raised $152,851.97, bringing his fundraising total to $444,297.59. With his loan total of $155,000, the total money available to his campaign so far is $599,297.59.
So we’ve got what has to be the first million dollar campaign in Cherokee Nation history, and we still don’t have a chief! We’ll post more on the campaign finance reports (and links to the reports themselves) of both candidate soon.
