Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, June 16, 1990                   TAG: 9006160369
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: JOEL TURNER MUNICIPAL WRITER
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CITY CAMPAIGN COST $83,161

Campaign finance reports show that the three winning Democratic candidates spent $49,995 - about 55 percent of the total amount.

Six candidates sought three seats in the May 1 election. About 12,000 voters cast ballots.

The candidates were required to file post-election campaign reports with the city Electoral Board on Friday, 45 days after the election.

The Democrats spent $16,933 of their own money and received $29,061 in contributions. Councilman Howard Musser, William White and James Harvey each made personal loans of $5,644 to the joint campaign committee.

In the final week of the campaign, the Democrats' joint committee received several contributions of more than $100: Southwestern Virginia Building and Construction Trades Council, $2,000; Thomas Robertson, $1,000; Roanoke Mechanical Services, $600; and Roanoke Valley Democratic Women, $250.

Some Democratic donors gave money to the joint campaign committee and others made donations to individual candidates.

In the campaign's final week, Musser received $250 from Horace Fralin and $200 from Mamie Webster. He also received $500 from the Roanoke Education Association after the election.

White and Harvey each received $250 contributions from the Roanoke Valley Board of Realtors. Harvey received a $250 donation from Fralin.

Councilman James Trout, who finished fourth, spent $26,123 on his campaign, including $7,000 for a campaign manager and campaign office workers in the final two weeks.

Trout, a Democrat who ran as an independent, received $26,123 in contributions, including $12,743 in donations of more than $100 in the final week.

Those contributions came from Stronger Tomorrows for all Roanokers, a political action committee composed mainly of businessmen, $10,643; Bittle Porterfield, $2,749; Len Boone, $250; A.W. Douthat, $250; Paul Frantz, $250; Joseph Goria, $200; Charles Howard, $200; Robert Mason, $250; L.C. Musgrove, $200; Martin Patsel, $250; and Frederick Shaftman, $250.

Roland Macher, a Republican who finished fifth, spent $11,043 on his campaign. That included $7,613 for expenses that have been paid and $3,430 in unpaid bills. Macher reported contributions of $7,897.

Macher received a $200 contribution from S.D. Roberts Moore in the campaign's final week.

The Rev. Cecil McClanahan, an independent who finished sixth, reported that he didn't receive any contributions and didn't spend anything on his campaign.

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