After campaigning for months, the City Yes and Citizens to Reorganize Fishers political action committees have raised finances to support their respective causes.
According to campaign finance reports filed with Hamilton County, Citizens to Reorganize Fishers collected contributions and receipts totaling $31,661.62 as of Oct. 12, as well as $21,340.03 in expenditures.
Citizens to Reorganize Fishers chairman Wayne M. Crane said after the Oct. 17 Fishers Chamber of Commerce Luncheon, the committee received a surge of donations.
He said the group is on target to raise just under $50,000 for reorganization by the time the election is over this Tuesday.
“In that regard (financially), we’re successful,” Crane said, “but I don’t know what the vote will look like.”
According to a similar report on City Yes, that political action committee raised $3,447.90 as of Oct .12. Their expenses then totaled $1,116.55.
City Yes Chairman Doug Allman said, “Considering what we have to work with, we’re doing the best we can with limited money and volunteers.”
Allman said there have been late-comers to the party.
“I’m real pleased,” he said. “We’ve got people giving $20 here, $10 dollars here. That’s encouraging, win (or) lose, whatever happens.”
Both groups received donations from public and private groups.
Citizens to Reorganize Fishers received donations from multiple councilors, as well as firms that have done business with the town in the past, including Meyer Najem Corporation, RQAW Corporation and E&B Paving.
“Every single one of those entities or individuals have a vested interest in Fishers,” Crane said. “They do business here.”
One of Citizens to Reorganize Fishers’ biggest donors is Crane himself.
“I put my money where my mouth is,” he said.
Members of City Yes have also donated to their own cause.