Big local spenders
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- November
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The New York Public Interest Research Group today compiled a list of the top 10 spenders in local elections this year. The leader was Democratic Erie County executive candidate Jim Keane, followed by Republican Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone and Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks, also a Republican.
Here’s the NYPIRG list:
Jim Keane, Erie County Executive, D, $1,292,513.01
Phil Amicone, Yonkers Mayor, R, $886,749.13
Maggie Brooks, Monroe County Executive, R, $763,875.91
Paul Clark, Erie County Executive, I, $759,308
Chris Collins, Erie County Executive, R, $676,652.37
Ernie Davis, Mt. Vernon Mayor, D, $482,452
William Magnarelli, Onondaga County Executive, D, $388,405.65
Dan Donovan, Staten Island District Attorney, R, $343,717.66
Bill O’Loughlin, Erie County Clerk, R, $330,987.69
Bill Steinhaus, Dutchess County Executive, R, $326,952.46
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
[...] local election campaigns in the entire state. Here’s the list of the top ten (from NYPirg via Joe Spector): Jim Keane, Erie County Executive, D, $1,292,513.01 Phil Amicone, Yonkers Mayor, R, $886,749.13 [...]